Domain Extension & SEO Impacts

[venkatweetz]

I'm planning to register a domain extension for educational start up. But our brand name is not available with popular extension such as (.com, .org).
And most of the startups are using .co & .io extension for their business.

As per my understanding .CO stands for Colombia & .IO stands for British Indian Ocean Territory. If i register my website with any one of this & targeting people who living in Australia, Can i rank the website for local keywords?

Please advice

 

[sadianisar]

Yes. You can go for country code level domains such as go for .au domains and then implement Local SEO techniques for your website.

 

[Medical]

A survey stated that domain extension has a low effect on your SEO, the real impact of TLD is not sure yet.It can favor your SEO strategy. Google has once again confirmed that the new domain extensions will offer no ranking advantage over traditional .com or .org domains.