With or Without?

Hi,
what do you think it's better in terms of SEO and SERP:

mykeyworddomain.com or my-keyword-domain.com?

thanks

 

Depends on a few factors, Google is great a picking out keywords correctly in a domain, but issues can arise. Lets look at one example.

www.expertsexchange.com - A Stock Trading Profolio Company

What keywords can Google see? Experts Exchange or Expert Sex Change

The issue comes down to can the wrong keyword or keyword phrase be pulled out of your domain if you don't use a delimiter, 90% of the time this won't be an issue, but it can happen. I suggest if you can get the domain without delimiters than do so, as long as no keyword issues come into play.

 

In my Experience people tend to remember names without hyphens better and its easier to tell someone to go to websiteaboutsomething.com all in one word.

I don't think it makes much difference for SEO since you will have the keywords in your domain name either way. Did you consider getting them both?

 

definitly from the seo point : my-keyword-domain.com

 

The first one without hyphens.

 

It really doesn't matter from my point of view apart from the very rare cases like ssandecki mentioned above.

There is no proof that one or other way would help. Personally I preffer domains without hyphens as they are easy to type, remember and reffer to...

 

Why do you think so?

 

I've made sure that I use the word split in my title tags and all over my site just to make sure that Google get's it right... I think the dashes between words may help give Google an easier time of it...

 

Their is no difference of SEO point of view. Check this: google.com/search?q=digital+point

I would suggest mykeywordSdomain.com because of the plural.

Too many dashes i user unfriendly.

 

It would actually be a great advantage to rank for both "Experts Exchange" and "Expert Sex Change" so dont worry about that.

Google is very wise already, they dont need dashes to know.

 

Login is bang on here, and just to add, if your afraid of users mis-reading your domain name, simply use the domain name as your logo and capitalise each word, for example www.ExpertsExchange.com has no way of being misread.

 

The best is my-keyword-domain.com

It makes keyword sense....

 

Well for SEO - hypens will be good.

But for customers and clients, i prefer a domain without having many hypens, I don't want to irritate anybody, but one hypen is fine, I think.

 

I think thatb they can be used for low trafic web sites. To get people for low traficated inquiries.

 

Please prove this

 

Try using with dashes... you target different keywords with that...

 

If you read into the many articles written about this by people who test this exact type of situation you'll see it has a negative effect on your site. I just used that one for explanation and humor purposes.

SitePoint has some excellent information related to this, I'm at work or I'd gladly link you to some of the threads and articles, but to think this could benefit you is rather silly.

 

Its not logic that it has a negative effect. The logic thing would be that it was positive and thats not silly
I would like to see that articles as I dont believe your theory. I am not just throwing that theory into the bin, but as far as I know right now it is not true.

 

Like I said, you can go over to sitepoint and look around, I'm at work and can't access my bookmarks. How would you assume that coming up for the two "completely different" keyword phrases would benefit your site? Logically we optimize web pages to one specific keyword or keyword phrase to get optimial preformance in search engines, using more just dilutes the total weight of that page verus the keywords. Why would you assume domain names to be any different

 

I prefer variant without hyphens. Regarding SEO, nowadays Google is easily able to split it into right keywords.