Dashes in Domain

I know this has been discussed alot before. People says that you should only have 1 dash in your domain url. Everyone says that having more than 1 dash in your url, your domain name will be considered spam.

Here is an excerpt from MattCutts

Source:http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

 

As the man says, dashes are ignored.

 

lol I find the domain name funny. I do have sites like www.best-wp-themes.com.

 

If you are looking to build a brand, xxx-yyy-zzz-www-aaa.com won't look good.

 

I agree with gr8liverpoolfan - dashes are OK, as long you are OK with them

 

DANGER! You are reading an article on SEO from 3 years ago! The search engines have long been able to parse out words in a domain no matter if there were dashes in it at all.

Go for a domain without dashes. If your site is successful, your type in traffic increases (people won't remember the dashes) so if your competitor owns the non-dashed version, you just did him/her a favor.

 

I used to have a domain with three dashes, that I binned as it looked a mouthful. It still ranks in the top 10 for a $4.00 click. Somone must have bought it through sedo

 

It won't hurt the serps, I promise you, and it still has major advantages for yahoo. But it looks shit.
Proof.
A domain I dropped for that very reason is still ranking well for the dud who bought it from SEDO

 

So may domain for airplane tickets, such as www.a-i-r-p-l-a-n-e-t-i-c-k-e-t-s.com is good?

 

I have always said dashes and underscores do not make SEO better or worse.
Im no SEO expert however i have had .info's and .nets on the first page of google with and without dashes.

Dont worry about it. I have a strong theory on what is good in search engines but i have only just started to test the theory so i will post my results if positive in the coming weeks/months.

 

to me it just looks spammy if you have too many dashes in the domain name

 

How would this be considered spam?

 

Its not a SPAM...

But its not looks professional, so i suggest 3-4 dashes only

 

One should use maximum two hyphens in an URL, to get good seo advantages, more dashes URL won't look professional, and earlier member said it won;t be a brand...

 

I think if a site has too many dashes, it's not user-friendly.

 

"For every dash in a domain, the quality rating of a site drops by that factor." - Paul Gardi

1. Your site's name looks like ass / you won't be getting many returning visitors.
2. From what I've gathered, G seems to assume that multiple (>2) dashes is some sort of domain keyword stuffing, and is penalized as such.