Value of *.us TLD for SEO

[Sebastian]

Don't care about branding at all.

I am talking about seo value only.

If you have keyword.us domain would you still have exact match benefit for "keyword" ?

How would you compare to an exact match for an *.org say ?

Thank you

Sebastian

[TexasHoldEmHank]

You would still derive the benefit of having the keyword as part of the domain, but you would not far as well against a pre-existing domain, because your domain name would be newer. Google have stated that they don't weight TLD in their results, and I don't believe other search engines do either.

If you're targeting geographically, there might be a small benefit to having a .us targeted to Americans, but I would venture that would be a very small benefit.

[pokermonger]

.org is much better than .us

[JohnH]

.com .net and .org are neutral in terms of geographic location, .us would do better in the US where the .org may do better globally for the given phrase