Better To Buy .net or Dashed Domain Names?

Shadowplay

Oct 23rd 2007, 2:00 pm

I don't want to spend a ton of money and I'm not overly concerned about branding. I want to buy up some names to put Adsense ads on them and use the rest as affiliate sites linked to by Adwords.

Other than .com, should I be purchasing any .net domains or my-original-domains with dashes? And which is worth more in the long run?

Shadowplay

Oct 23rd 2007, 11:33 pm

Nobody has an opinion on this? Has this question already been answered somewhere else?

AmeliaMorris

Oct 23rd 2007, 11:48 pm

I prefer dashes in names. Some words when they are clumped together actually make other words which confuses the search engines. Also,
1book has about 70,000 results. But, 1-book has over 700,000. It's the same set of words...but, I don't think the search engine can seperate the words that accurately which is why the hyphenated words bring more results.

Shadowplay

Oct 24th 2007, 12:35 pm

I prefer dashes in names. Some words when they are clumped together actually make other words which confuses the search engines. Also,
1book has about 70,000 results. But, 1-book has over 700,000. It's the same set of words...but, I don't think the search engine can seperate the words that accurately which is why the hyphenated words bring more results.

Well, initially I would agree with you but then I had heard that the SE's actually can separate the words in the domain name. Maybe someone else can shed some light on the subject...

fuzeooster

Oct 26th 2007, 2:24 am

I'm no expert, but I think most people would say that it's always best to go for names without dashes and pickup .net

I'd be interested to hear what others more experienced in these matters think too.

MWD

Oct 26th 2007, 2:27 am

Pick the name that people will remember and come back, that is of course if you have a site worth coming back for.

If you just have a affiliate/adsense site with just the aim of passing traffic through to get commissions or sales then go for the keyword rich domain.

My take on domain names.

m38967

Oct 26th 2007, 5:57 pm

I have the same question. Anyone else care to advise?

dman_2007

Oct 27th 2007, 10:45 pm

.net if you want people to type in the address to get to your site most of the time, dashed .com if majority of the traffic is going to be from search engines, imho.

kewlchat

Oct 27th 2007, 11:02 pm

I like dashed :)

ezyweb

Oct 28th 2007, 2:35 am

In terms of the value of the domain, a dash will severely lower your profits if you ever plan on selling the name. Domainers like myself, try and stay away from domains with either number of dashes because they don't sell well. But from an SE perspective I really can't comment.

A good .net will sell better then a dash 99 out of 100 times.

hellobbs

Oct 28th 2007, 12:13 pm

In terms of the value of the domain, a dash will severely lower your profits if you ever plan on selling the name. Domainers like myself, try and stay away from domains with either number of dashes because they don't sell well. But from an SE perspective I really can't comment.

A good .net will sell better then a dash 99 out of 100 times.

Agree, it's more easy to remember a domain without dash. I would suggest you go into .net