I'd like to get your thoughts on whether or not an ideal domain name should have dashes separating the words. Do dashes in a domain name "de-value" the website in a user's mind and/or SEO? Personally, I don't like to see dashes in a domain, but I would like to know if I'm alone in this. Thank you.
they are good for seo purpose imo. normally we should get nonhyphenated domains too if we going to use dashed domains
This. The hyphens are seen as word separators. But if you can get the exact match domain over the hyphen domain it would be preferable.
If u r looking for keyword based domains, normally dashes are used as most keyword domains will eb already taken.
Usually I include a dash if my domain has an important keyword, and I also take non-hyphen domain and make it redirect to the hyphened one.
An ideal domain name shouldn't have dashes in between because it kills the value of the name dramatically. However, it wouldn't really matter from an SEO perspective as it could help a little.
but dashes must separate whole words (means dont do ha-pp-y.com. it is an alternate way to get keyword domains because most dash free domains must already be gone.
Since all of the good domain names have been bought up it is common for people to use dashes in the domain name. If your trying to get certain words in the domain name for SEO you have to do what you have to do! This does not devalue the name at all in fact it can really does help your SEO efforts to have key words in the domain name. I have used this techniqe for some of my clients and had great success. The only bad part is that someone else will have the same domain without the dashes and there is a chance that a person typing your domain into their address bar may forget the dashes and land on a competitor site.
I don't think all good domain names have been bought up. I bought my first domain name a few months ago and got a great one by being a bit creative.
Plus the domain name is not that important at all.. Choose a simple one, short, easy to remember instead of one having keywords, the advantage in seo is like near to nothing and the disadvantage is that it's so long.. Choose a domain name with something like topoto.com for flowers is same or better than best-flowers.com
anking does not really concern having the dashes or not, it is based on something else entirely. The domain name becomes a bit difficult to type having the dashes and all but not that much.
Search Engines never seriously consider the dashed domains as bad ones.some domain names really require dashes. One dash is so fair to have.But more than one or two...not good. As IAMAWESOME said its horrible for branding but works well in search engines.
Well,It depends if the Domain has important keyword and it has hyphens then it has no problem and it is alos good from SEO point of view
I just read articles on SEO effects... most say hyphens-in-domain-names may be seen as SPAM in coming days...