Im looking at a domain, butits only available with the - ie domain-name.com Ive always been afraid to use a domain like that, but I can only really see it being a problem when it comes to word of mouth or type-ins. What do you think??
Dash or Number add one whole word when someone spells your domain From a search engine's point of view it will be ok the - version However prepared to loose some traffic from the undashed and the unabbreviated version of the number ( domainFournames.com )
You will lose some traffic to the undashed domain. I would perfer a dash then a number unless it is relevant to the domain name, also you might want to investigate this but on other SEO boards it is believed that the - domain can actually help SEO ranking course this is only one small factor very small factor in the whole SEO scheme
i would not prefer a "-" domain but still there are examples sites with - also doing well, so everything depends on the 2 words and also on promotions of the website
The cooler trend nowadays is throwing in the whole name including the first sub prefix and extension, e.g: del.icio.us web2.0awards.org which adds up to the thousands of possibilities. Not sure about the SEO benefits though.
yeah i learnt the hard way i usually go with a brandable name short if possible but otherwise dash is ok but vital for seo
That's called 'domain-hacking'. Surprisingly, some very good ones are still available. For instance, today I registered the following: o.rgas.ms or.gaz.ms (or ass.gaz.ms & girl.gaz.ms & gay.gaz.ms or just plain gaz.ms) mada.ms Don't know why, I have absolutely no interest in adult web sites, but the hacks seemed too cool to pass up. Probably just auction them off one day... Cheers
If domainname.com is regged then I go for domain-name.com in most cases. I would prefer a short hyphenated .com then some crappy long unhyphenated .com which ppl will mispell anyway.