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Domain extensions have little - or no perceivable- effect on rankings.
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True - A TLD is a TLD is a TLD...................
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google penalizes any domain that has EVER been expired now
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False - They are not "punished". They just dont get any benefit from pre-exisitng link popularity. Expired domains are still valid assets.
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Apart from that you also run the risk of picking up a domain that Google has consigned to the black hole because some se spammer was using it.
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True - but a little investigation can help you find out if it was... "banned" by Google.
Check it's previous existence -
http://www.archive.org/,
Check existing Link Popularity -
http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/ (Google aint the only SE out there.)
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I was reading somewhere that google has recently taken away the relavency of hyphenated in achieving top search rankings.
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Not true in my opinion - Be careful what you read about Google.!!
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I think you have to take everything you read about what Google likes and dislikes with a grain of salt until you actually see Google confirm it on its webmaster pages.
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Too True.
Gday Steve
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I know google has had problems in the past with .biz and .info domains spamming, so I am expecting them to compensate for this in the future
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I dont believe that Google will punish an entire TLD for SE spamming.. believe me there are just as many .com/.net spammers out there.
JMO
DD