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Domain name: Hyphens or no hyphens?

by TekNite
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If you wanted to use a long tail domain name would you use:

Longtaildomainnamehere.com

or

Long-tail-domain-name-here.com

and both are available.

Thanks!
#domain #hyphens #keywords
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Skip the hyphens.
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    • Profile picture of the author TekNite
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Skip the hyphens.
      Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author tjaysen70
    ya know, I've heard those people say that the domain with hyphens is less powerful than those that don't have them, in terms of seo etc. However, with my own testing on domains that have hyphens, I found that ranking them was still really easy and worked really well.
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  • Profile picture of the author sweezeter
    Hyphens are awful, especially when you have more than one that's just brutal.

    Find a new domain, or find something brandable that's shorter and memorable.
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  • Profile picture of the author flesterking
    No hyphens. Never use hyphens or numbers on the domain, they are so weird and even google doesnt like it. One of my client with an hyphen domain had a very slow serp rankings because of the only hyphen which we found out after doing the same process with a new no-hyphen domain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Barry Cross
      If it's for a site you wish to rank then leave out the hyphens. On the other hand for a squeeze page you are not looking to rank then using hyphens means you can get great domain names cheaper & more availability.

      Cheers
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      • Profile picture of the author TekNite
        Thank you all for the replies. Very helpful! Looks like skipping the hyphens it is.
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