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Hypens in Domains

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by philpbvc3232, Oct 24, 2010.

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    Hi everyone:
    I was wondering if it is good to use hyphens in domain names as far as SEO purposes are concerned?
    Thanks
     
    philpbvc3232, Oct 24, 2010 IP
  2. Cheat

    Cheat Peon

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    #2
    If your planing to create 2 word domain name, I suggest you get a single keyword.com and create an infinity amount of subdomain like keyword.keyword.com instead of being limited to keywordkeyword.com or keyword-keyword.com because it's more "elegant" and it's more .
     
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  3. SiberForum

    SiberForum Banned

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    That will not affect your SEO in any way please be patient.
     
    SiberForum, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    htmlindex Prominent Member

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    I don't think it's really gonna make much difference at all
     
    htmlindex, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    #5
    If you want to book a domain a its been already booked by someone than it pretty nice to book your domain that of type including hyphen so it will help you in seo as well.
     
    deepender, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    scriptinstaller Peon

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    i do notice, maybe its not relevant, but more than one hyphens not indexing, i had lot from 2000 when hyphen domains were hot for seo, none get any traffic, but one hyphen never been problem.. I could be wrong, its just my own speculation, more than one hyphen is not helpful
     
    scriptinstaller, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    gov Active Member

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    Its depend on the competition of the keyword you choose, and other keyword rich domain name without hypen optimization. If your competition is low or medium low, and all the com/net/org keyword rich domain name without hypen not optimized well [ at least you don't see them at firs 2 or 3 page search engine, you can go with hypen alternative. I don't know about keyword.keyword.com [ using sub domain ] I'll try this option, and will see the result too. Thanks for share :)
     
    gov, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    chandan123 Prominent Member

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    Search engines are clever to detect keywords with/witout hyphens so its not much helpful for seo now a days. only good contents needed. But from reseller point of view hyphens gets low value.
     
    chandan123, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    #9
    This has been already discussed thousand times, so why don't you search for those threads to find more insights on this topic.
     
    Mystique, Oct 25, 2010 IP
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    I've a few hyphenated domains ranking good! If you give it the proper backlink juice then it should rank well
     
    theentry, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    Hyphens worked for my site. Indexing by web spiders is faster.
     
    supersaiyantoto, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    Currently there are only few hypenated domain but I don't think it worth it.
    For some domainers, I think they dont like hypenated domain.
     
    Elitegeek, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #13
    If the exact match domain name is not available then hyphen domain names are the second best alternative.
     
    dcristo, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    Hypens in a .com one is even sometime better than non-Hypens one
     
    hungvn9, Oct 26, 2010 IP