I've been continuing my my current trend of creating 'sponsored' microsites for client websites, each targeting a specific search term with a keyword or phrase rich URL.
The latest batch I've done are for Treloar's school and college, and include both .com and .co.uk domain extensions:
www.disabledschools.com
www.disabledschools.co.uk
www.disabledcolleges.com
www.disabledcolleges.co.uk
www.disablededucation.com
www.disablededucation.co.uk
They were created in December, and just had basic Wordpress installed with a single page, and a page title matching the domain name - no content, backlinks or anything.
I've just been verifying each site in Google Webmaster and was pleasantly surprised to see that 3 out of 6 sites are already indexed (although no phrase rankings are yet being reported). The 3 indexed are all the .com domains.
All the domains were registered at the same time using the same provider, Heart Internet, and the same registrant address in the UK. So how strange that Google should still favour the .com domain extensions for the new sites.
Is it because decent .com domains are so rare to find these days that if you can get one, it still gets indexing priority?
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