{"id":147,"date":"2010-08-07T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2017-05-30T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:41:11","slug":"omg-co-ranks-higher-than-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/omg-co-ranks-higher-than-com","title":{"rendered":"OMG ! .CO ranks higher than .COM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/google-loves-dot-co.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-148\" title=\"google-loves-dot-co\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/google-loves-dot-co-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/google-loves-dot-co-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/google-loves-dot-co.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Wow thats great news for .co owners. If you have not got 1 then it is time you go get a .co NOW !<\/p>\n<p>I found out Google does not really treate it as a country tld. It treats .co as a global domain just like .com or .info<\/p>\n<p>There have been talks on forum threads and blogs regarding what Google actually thinks of a .co domain name. Many have argued and said they would wait until until an official confirmation is given out by Google.<\/p>\n<p>Why wait ?<\/p>\n<p>I have the proof here. Checkout the image below. I searched for the term likey and what do i find on rank 1 ?<\/p>\n<p>Likey.co<\/p>\n<p>I know it is not a competitive term or anything but still. Google chose .com over .co \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Checkout screenshots for both the sites below. Likey.com even has a PR2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-co.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-150\" title=\"likey-co\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-co-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-co-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-co.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-com.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-151\" title=\"likey-com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-com-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-com-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/likey-com.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of all the registrars i think namecheap is giving out the .co at the lowest price. You can try godaddy if you have a coupon otherwise click below to go and <strong>get a .co domain<\/strong> now !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow thats great news for .co owners. If you have not got 1 then it is time you go get a .co NOW ! I found out Google does not really treate it as a country tld. It treats .co as a global domain just like .com or .info There have been talks on forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmythakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}