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puting dash (-) on domain name??

by salaka
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whats your thoughts on puting dash on domain name beucase .com.net.org all gone your thoughts please???
#dash #domain #puting
  • Profile picture of the author loi77
    Using dash for your domain name makes it harder for people to remember because they are used to typing domain name without dash.

    Including dash also makes it look unprofessional.

    It is much better to use a suffix instead of a prefix for SEO purpose.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      It's actually a "hyphen", not a dash: those are two different punctuation marks.

      For SEO purposes, it has absolutely no relevance at all, as Google and Matt Cutts explain openly and repeatedly on blogs, websites, videos and so on.

      However, there can be a number of other downsides, including the potential for loss of traffic to the owner of the unhyphenated version.

      That said, there are some domain-names that look better and make more sense when clarified with hyphens, as would perhaps be confirmed - with hindsight - by the owners of penisland.com and the celebrated molestationnursery.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    I don't mind dashes in my domains if...

    It's not a "branded" site. As in, if it's a review site or a site that people will probably only visit once.

    However, if it's a site you want them to visit regularly, perhaps a business, I wouldn't recommend dashes.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Whats the real question here?

    Our thoughts, or if they can rank?

    ...or?
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  • Profile picture of the author Romeo90
    If the site and what it is offering is good enough, then people will remember it whatever.

    I have a couple of sites with hyphens in it, they do no worse or better than the ones without, thats all I can say.
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  • Profile picture of the author AMiRU
    IfItsTooLongItMayBeConfusing if there is no dash isn't it? Putting dash can sometimes be useful, but a long domain wouldn't be a great domain huh?
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  • Profile picture of the author spunkz
    Somtimes long domain names are the only option. I saw this name the other day for a wrestling promotion:

    ShowcaseChampionshipWrestling.com longest domain ever, but SCWrestling.com was already taken, so they had to go ahead and buy the long form.
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  • Profile picture of the author Simmeon
    If the website has value and provides awesome content. The url address is slightly irrelevant. That only works for a blog more so than a product/sell website.
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  • Profile picture of the author soldoni
    i think putting dash is difficult to use, And dot is better than others.

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author akg12
    The dash works for ranking because I have #1 ranked site for someone competitive term and it has a dash.

    As far as professionalism, I think it would be best to have a short, sweet .com but sometimes that just isn't possible.
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  • Profile picture of the author raylee1
    Originally Posted by salaka View Post

    whats your thoughts on puting dash on domain name beucase .com.net.org all gone your thoughts please???

    i dont like hyphens in domains but what ever you decide to put, make sure your spellings correct
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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    I was doing some research on hanbags last week and came across this on the first page. I forget the search term but up it popped.

    b-a-g-s.com
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  • Profile picture of the author AbrahamGuzman
    It is okay to use dashes(-) in a domain name
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