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I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the United States. I'm wondering if a .it domain will negatively effect the site's search rankings. Is it better to use a .com TLD?

For example (I don't actually own these domains), would the domain love.it have a worse ranking than loveit.com? (Assuming the content of the sites is the same)

I've been searching everywhere for an answer with not much luck. Any advice would be very helpful.

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Related: webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/34418/… –  w3d Sep 18 '12 at 1:17
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marked as duplicate by John Conde Sep 18 '12 at 11:32


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No. From Google's FAQ:




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However, Google does use gTLDs as a signal for geotargeting, so if you can avoid using a gTLD for content which is intended to have a wider audience than a specific country, I'd recommend doing so.

There's a very similar question/discussion here: Advantages of country TLD vs. .com

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