.org domains are good right?

[alley]

I mean I bought one today for one of my current web projects that I decided to change formats on. It was originally a TV fan site .. but I recently decided to allow movie fan pages and other types of fan pages so my domain has to be changed because my .com domain has the word "TV" in it.

Did you ever try to find a cool .com domain for a general fan page site? ...OMG!!! .. it is near impossible. They are all taken, and so are the .net domains. So I found a good short domain and bought the .org version. Since my community is a tight nit community that offers free fan pages to my members I figured it would fall under the non profit category.

I love my .com domains as much as the next guy, but I guess a .com domain doesn't really make the website anyways. I mean look at freewebspace.net ... It's not the shortest domain in the world, and it is not a .com domain and it is a very popular successful site.

I guess as long as you have a loyal following, and you put your keywords in your meta tags you will be alright.

[XavierZ]

The connection between popularity=traffic of the site and the extension of the domain has been discussed a lot in seo and the general opinion is there's no any influence. The majotiry of sites with high PR do belong to .com, but just because they've been worked on.
So, good luck with your fun page!

[Brilliances]

if you're not looking to make money out of it, .org sites are still good. They are indexed well by google

[ahnzet]

if you're not looking to make money out of it, .org sites are still good. They are indexed well by google
Agree with you. Alley can earn quite enough money out of .org. As far as I know Yahoo indexed it perfectly well too.

[alley]

Thanks guys ... that's what I was hoping to hear. makes me feel a little better about it.

[Trance ADdix]

your just trying to convince yourself, .org = organization, you have organization? lol, its best to just get the name before you buy, and just buy all the 3 extensions, whats your sites name? blahfanclub.org? now someone searches for blahfanclub, itll probbaly show them the OTHER site, on the OTHER extension, and bye bye visitors, how this makes you feel better