hello all SEO experts today I found a great niche and when to godaddy to buy a domain rich on the keywords. but here is the catch, I found a domain with 3 good keywords but now I am consufed should I use 2 hyphens or no hyphens. with hyphens it looks good and whitout hyphens is hard to read. but I am not sure if Google will penalyge domain with 2 hyphens? the domain is 19 characters long (without hyphens) and 21 char long with hyphens. need your advice
you can probably answer your own question if you ask yourself which would you rather own www.creditcards.com www.credit-cards.com www.credit--cards.com
Domain with hypen is not bad particularly if you can fairly divide domain in two keywords. I have most of my domains with hypens and have great sucess. Probably you will not get good direct traffic but search traffic would be good if you have no competitors.
that's not true at all while domain name is nice it's also very hard to get a premium domain without investing a lot of money. It's all about serps if you're number 1 for your targeted keyword then who cares what your domain name is as long as people can find you in search engines you're fine.
A domain without hyphens is my choice. Imagine someone calls you and tells you about a great site "free credit cards dot com". An average human would type in freecreditcards.com, not free-credit-cards.com.
Does not make a difference. My best site has a hyphen and the only problem is telling people the website address. Now a days everyone knows the lingo "dash" - back in 2003 I had to explain it. I have been trying to buy the name with no dash for years but owner is stubborn. I even got a registered trademark for the name
I don't think it matters with or withoue hyphens as long as the version without hyphens isn't confusing. In your case I'd go for the shortest domain name which is the one without hyphens.
A hyphen might help for search engine to get your keywords. Although they can be easier to read for users and SE, they are certainly harder to type spell out to someone else. Without hyphen is good choice and probably better if your keywords are simple.
The search engines could care less whether you have hyphens in your domain or not. Personally, if I'm choosing between two domains like keyword1-keyword2.keyword3.com and keyword1keyword2keyword3.com I always go w/ the one without hyphens - less to type, easier to type etc. But when choosing between hyphens or no-hyphens for page and folder names in the URL I always choose the hyphenated version.
If you have the choice, no dash would be better than with a dash. Overall, a great domain with a dash is better than no domain at all.