Question about pagerank and domain names (com vs. info, etc..)?

As far as page ranking it is better to have a site with a NON-dot-com address but with an accurate domain name, such as "LouisvilleTanning.info" or stick with the dot-com and have a less accurate domain name such as "Louisville-Tanning-Salon.com"

Louisville-Tanning-Salon.com would be the better choice over LouisvilleTanning.info but not because of the .com, which doesn't matter.

This is because keywords can help in domain names in the following way. When someone links to your site one of the important factors is the anchor text and quite a few unsolicited links will simply have the url as the anchor e.g. yourdomain.com

If you have a hyphenated keyword domain then there will be an advantage because your keywords will automatically be in the anchor text.

The disadvantage is that at any time hyphenated urls may be considered spammy by Google. For example cheapest-ink-jet-printers-in-the-world.c... so keep to one or two hyphens at the most.

Also hyphenated domains are not good for 'branding' but if you have no intention of branding then go for the hyphenated url.

If anyone tells you that Google can read keywords in concatenated urls get them to read this http://www.seo-blog.com/keywords-in-urls...

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In this day and age it does not really matter what the extensions are, because there are millions of them now. I have a very long att.net on my website extension and I am ranked number 1 on all search engines because of my two "key words." That is what gets you the rankings not the extensions.