Domain names with hyphens

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TrulyReal

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Dec 10, 2011

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• Jan 15, 2012

• #21

I mostly work with micro-sites and parked domains so I know that if I didn't use hyphens I would miss out on a lot of quality domains. From testing out domains with and without hyphens I haven't really seen it affect its rankings.

I'm guessing you are looking at a scenario where not using a hyphen might give the domain a different meaning than the one you intended. I would go with the hyphen

 

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Bizmarkie40

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Dec 11, 2011

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• Jan 15, 2012

• #22

Thanks. I am looking at some new sites and it appears hyphens are the way to go.

 

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lizzyeros

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Dec 17, 2010

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #23

For the main domain don't use hyphens. Just assume that people are retards. It's better if they just type a bunch of letters in a row.

 

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chaddo

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Jan 16, 2012

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #24

I think they're good for SEO, but hard for remembering and should be avoided.

 

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bigballin6161

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Jul 16, 2011

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #25

I just regestered one with 2 hyphens in it and its a .net domain too. It isnt that competitive. Ill keep you posted.

 

N1CHOLAS

Regular Member

Dec 26, 2010

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #26

There is nothing wrong with hyphen, but they don't get an exact match bonus like the non hyphens do.

I have a two hyphen on its way for some good loan terms.

 

Techxan

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Dec 7, 2011

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #27

Sharon Martin said:

Hyphen is a keyword separator... It does not hamper your ranking, instead gives you benefit (your domain may get ranked for all the keywords separated by hyphens)

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Yes and all the people who search for these keywords with hyphens in between them will find you.

 

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Jilted

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Jan 5, 2012

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #28

TrulyReal said:

I mostly work with micro-sites and parked domains so I know that if I didn't use hyphens I would miss out on a lot of quality domains. From testing out domains with and without hyphens I haven't really seen it affect its rankings.

I'm guessing you are looking at a scenario where not using a hyphen might give the domain a different meaning than the one you intended. I would go with the hyphen

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From my point of view it doesn't matter if you have hyphen in micro niches if all your traffic will be organic. Its actually better as you will rank keywords better.

 

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qulman

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Jan 15, 2009

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• Jan 16, 2012

• #29

I think it has no different for ranking, but when you want to tell your website from mouth to mouth...you know it's hard to say when the domain has hyphen..

 

cokol

Regular Member

Nov 13, 2009

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• Jan 17, 2012

• #30

I had ranked well on websites with hyphens in its domain name. I have heard that it is better not to use them, but if you just have to, go for it.

 

kkvsam

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Oct 11, 2009

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• Jan 17, 2012

• #31

Actually I would say avoid with hyphens. Because I've several domains with hyphens, they are very hard to rank than without hyphen domains. But I rank for 6th position on 1st page for one of keyword. But couldn't move on to upper. Still doing some sort of SEO to move up. So avoid them. But if you can't avoid, then buy it and work hard.

 

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Busrunner

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Nov 26, 2011

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• Jan 17, 2012

• #32

I am ranking for keywords like "kw1 kw2" without a hassle with kw1-kw2.com . kw1kw2.org is above me though