Hey people, What is your opinion on 3-word domains: hyphen between words or not? 1. word1-word2-word3.tld 2. word1word2word3.tld 1 or 2? P.S. "word2" is not a real word, it is something like "of" or "in", so not a keyword. P.S.S. I am mostly interested from the SEO point of view, but I also care for the visitor's comfort.
Most of people say 'Google likes hyphen' but i dont know,maybe this people are who were late to buy non-hyphen domain names
I would stay with max 2 words without - it's short and much easier to remember. but I think age of domain matters than domain name.
From a search engine perspective they will read them both the same. from a User perspective i would go for non hyphenated version as it will be easier for them to remember. Buy both anyway
unless it has the same letter close to each other, like servicesseo.com that will confuse the visitors (and peole do SEO for visitors). Anyway if you can have the domain without the hyphens and there are not double letters close to each other go with the without hyphens domain for two reasons. 1). It will perform the same with search engines as the one with hyphens (if not better) 2). Easier to remember and more brandable.
I registered my business' domain name with hyphens and couldn't position it for the life of me in Google. I switched to another domain and I was top 10. I think your sandbox chances are greater with hyphens.
keyword term - seo search engine - Google 3 out of the top 10 sites have hyphens...so that wasn't the problem.
For a long time G didnt like hyphens..only underscores..now the algos have adjusted for it, and there really isnt any difference. For value purposes and direct navigation (it does matter peeps) I would go direct with words only...no hyphens. For KW seo on page 1, two urls are hyphenated and the remainder are not, FYI.
5. seo-usa.com - 1 6. google.com 7. searchengineguide.com 8.seo-guy.com - 2 9. sem-link.com - 3 10 webopedia.com That's three...call your optometrist. PS it was they didn't like underscores, hyphens have always been fine.
as much as possible i'll go with no hyphen, search engine ranking depends on link building, onpage optimization, etc.
As far as possible try to avoid hyphen but if you get a good domain name with conjunction of two appropriate words that make whole domain meaningful and memorable one hyphen can worthwhile to use.