Does it matter if my domain has a .com .org. net extention?

[yaser]

Hi,

Does the domain extention ie. .com .org. net effect the chances of me ranking in search engines. Is there a prefrence or does it not matter?

Thanks

Yaser

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[Julich]

Prefer .COM extension if possible, or your country's TLD if your website is targeted to your country only.

.ORG is ok : see seomoz.org

.NET is ok too but I personally don't like them

[StalkerB]

All things being equal it would make no difference to ranking, even dot infos should have the same chance.

In reality though a number of factors could have a knock on effect, people automatically type dot com (or hit ctrl+enter like me), people looking for local results may trust a ccTLD more, dot infos are cheap and riddled with more spam sites than other TLDs, so on and so forth.

So, were it in a bubble, no; but there are secondary marketing factors to consider.