Hello.............

My website has a dot com extension. I have been told that if one owns "all" the commonly used extensions (for your web site name), it will definitely have a positive impact; yeilding improved positions/visibility when people use search Engines (to find relevant items in your area).

The relevant extensions I'm referring to are: .net .biz .info .org and .us

(These would be set up to automatically forward any internet user to the .com extension)

I would appreciate anyone's input on this.

Thanks!

It won't make one bit of difference to search engines. In fact if you have all those TLDs you want to point them all to one or the search engines will actually see your one site as several different sites and dilute any benefit you get from links, etc.

Pointing the different extensions at the .com will mean search engines will see your site only as having the .com extension.

You may want to grab the different extensions for branding purposes. So that people don't confuse you at .com with another company at .net or .biz, but it's not going to help with search traffic.

Thanks very much..........suspicions confirmed!