Domains with a "-" Hyphen....... does Google dislike this?

Say you're trying to rank for "Boston News"

Say you're competing with the top 10:

www.bostonnews.com
www.newscorpbos.com
www.xiaa.com
www.bostonnewssource.com
www.bostontimes.com

etc. etc.

Now, what if your domain name is www.boston-news.com

Has anyone heard of Google giving less credit to hyphenated domain names?????

 

No Google treat it equal.. but then there are other factors also involves in rankings else that just domain name

 

I've never had a problem with hyphens.

 

look at this popular search:
"free web hosting"

look at the top position, you'll see many '-' hypen domain there.

But, using no-hypen is still better.
Use hypen only if the non-hypen have been taken or the domain have more that 3 words (only because hypen looks better with many words)

 

No problem at all, been using them for some time with success,

 

I runn a "-" site and it is my most succesfull

 

Absolutely all of my domains contain hyphens and there is no problem with their rankings at all. Google takes the "-" like space.

 

Using Hyphens in domain name doesn't matter much, but its somewhat difficult to type and spell

 

hyphen will help you.

and most of the search engines use hyphen as a separator so, if you have hyphen then it will help you to separate your 2 keywords

 

I am using hypens and never had problems with it.

 

hyphens are good bet when the domain has been registered, you can get some very good domain if you start adding a hyphen. Never seen any pref to domains with a hyphen to those without.

 

I have a few domains with "-" ,I hope what you said it's not true

 

Using hyphen is ok. I think, Google do not much worry about domain using hyphens or not.

 

Hyphens are OK, and help with getting your keywords into your domain name.

 

It doesnt really matter as long as you are having good content and visitors are coming back to it

 

I have had a site with '-' with it. Google doesnt really care about it. used to get 2.5k UV daily and 70% was from search engines (yahoo + google).

so dont worry about it. Good luck.

 

It is, as so many have said, harmless. But beyond that, it is probably a very good idea, because it makes 100% sure that the searchbots can properly parse the individual words. Yes, they probably can even without the hyphens, but success consists in doing all the little things right, and taking every possible chance to increase your odds. Why would one ever willingly leave it out?

(The argument that it is harder for visitors to remember or type in seems empty, in that 10 most visitors arrive by clicking a link, someone else's or their own bookmark; and 2) it's not hard to recall "all hyphenated" for a domain name.)

I have some of each, and wish I had made them all hyphenated.