About bharmon520
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I love being outdoors, sports, traveling, crafts, cooking, Phish, cats and tech & apps. Three words I'd choose to describe adult me would be adventurous,

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I know .com is preferable but what are opinions on .xyz vs .com for an affiliate blog, considering that I have <my name>.xyz already that I will be using a personal brand

The big advantage of a .com and therefore the disadvantage of others is that people look for .coms. If someone knows you have a website and looks up your name they may assume it is a .com.

Of course the bulk of your traffic should be coming from people you don't know, through searches etc. In that case they will come to your site through links or through searching for your keywords. In those cases, your domain name doesn't really matter. So, for the bulk of your traffic it shouldn't matter. I would imagine it is only when a site get really, really famous that people know it by name and go searching for it. By that point if they search for your name your site should pop up at top of the search results anyway.

So, I don't think it matters that much!

Thanks for the feedback...I went with .xyz :)

Good, I hope it works out well for you! You can always create more sites later as well.

Hey Brittany,

Think the dot com extensions are advantageous to use simply because many newbies "assume" a domain uses that extension. Plus, if you were to use any other extension and your website were to FINALLY become popular, someone would register the dot com version and snag your potential website visitors away. It doesn't seem to work the other way around.

To learn more about this, you could always Google search "why use dot com" (without the quotation marks, of course) to see what others may tell you.

Hope this answers your question.

Thanks for the feedback. Good points and I did more research like you suggested. I ended up going with .xyz, which at the very least, I do feel confident about at this point. We shall see!

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How much of a disadvantage is using .xyz?

How much of a disadvantage is using .xyz?

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I know .com is preferable but what are opinions on .xyz vs .com for an affiliate blog, considering that I have <my name>.xyz already that I will be using a personal brand

The big advantage of a .com and therefore the disadvantage of others is that people look for .coms. If someone knows you have a website and looks up your name they may assume it is a .com.

Of course the bulk of your traffic should be coming from people you don't know, through searches etc. In that case they will come to your site through links or through searching for your keywords. In those cases, your domain name doesn't really matter. So, for the bulk of your traffic it shouldn't matter. I would imagine it is only when a site get really, really famous that people know it by name and go searching for it. By that point if they search for your name your site should pop up at top of the search results anyway.

So, I don't think it matters that much!

Thanks for the feedback...I went with .xyz :)

Good, I hope it works out well for you! You can always create more sites later as well.

Hey Brittany,

Think the dot com extensions are advantageous to use simply because many newbies "assume" a domain uses that extension. Plus, if you were to use any other extension and your website were to FINALLY become popular, someone would register the dot com version and snag your potential website visitors away. It doesn't seem to work the other way around.

To learn more about this, you could always Google search "why use dot com" (without the quotation marks, of course) to see what others may tell you.

Hope this answers your question.

Thanks for the feedback. Good points and I did more research like you suggested. I ended up going with .xyz, which at the very least, I do feel confident about at this point. We shall see!

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