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Domain Question- .net or .com with dashes?

by localized
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I am setting up a new website and i can't get the .com as it is taken. Should I use the .net version or the .com with dashes?
#dashes #domain #net #question
  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    if its for branding dont do it but its its for seo, dashes dont matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Lessey
    Dashed domains dont look good in terms of SEO. A .net would be better

    If you not looking for traffic in terms of SEO then it would not matter
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  • Profile picture of the author Cool Hand Luke
    .net all day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jermaine Tabor
    I would go with the .net personally. Don't get me wrong. You will see some hyphenated domains on the first page from time to time but not like you used to.

    Also, is .com developed and ranked already?
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    • Profile picture of the author localized
      The .com is not developed and the owner wants way too much money for it. .com, ,net, and .org were all taken so I registered the .com with dashes, then I checked the other day and the .net was available so I got it for $8.

      I already set up the site on the .com with dashes but it's not live yet. I think I am going to clone the site and move it to the .net.
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  • Profile picture of the author XYZcontent
    I would take the .net, although i don't really think it matters that much as long as you have quality content on your website.
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  • Profile picture of the author SebastianJ
    Too expensive to get the .com? In that case, get the .net.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Call me pedantic, but these are hyphens, not dashes: they're two different punctuation marks.

      Hyphenated domains are not disadvantaged in any way for SEO. In some of the many other threads here discussing this point, there are links to a video of Google's Matt Cutts clarifying this point in some detail. But however much he - and they - clarify it, there will always be people who believe otherwise (maybe because they read it in a forum thread).

      For myself, I would take the .com with a hyphen. Neither is ideal because both involve building a business on a domain-name of which the unhyphenated .com version already belongs to someone else. But arguably (public perception being what it is) the .com may have more future resale value, because there are also people (and perhaps even more of them?) who believe that .com domains are better for SEO than .net's. :rolleyes:

      For SEO purposes it makes absolutely no difference either way.

      Originally Posted by manny2513 View Post

      if "autoinsurancequotes.com" is taken you can use something like "myautoinsurancequotes.com" and since "my" is a stop word then search engines will see your domain as "autoinsurancequotes.com"
      This is completely wrong, "stop-word" or no "stop-word".

      It's important, if adding letters/a word to the keyword, to put that after the keyword in the domain-name, not before. If you're trying to rank for "autoinsurancequotes", then for SEO purposes "autoinsurancequotesxyz" is better than "myautoinsurancequotes".

      There's so much misinformation about these subjects here.

      People repeat what others have told them without ever checking with an authoritative source.

      Any standard textbook of SEO, Google's blog, Matt Cutts' blog, forum posts from resident experts like Gene Pimentel (what he doesn't know about domain-names isn't worth knowing) and so on are all freely available ... but no: people prefer to repeat misinformation and give misguided advice instead. [/rant]
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  • Profile picture of the author manny2513
    .net will be better but if .net .com or .org is already taken you can use a stopword instead of dashes I. E. if "autoinsurancequotes.com" is taken you can use something like "myautoinsurancequotes.com" and since "my" is a stop word then search engines will see your domain as "autoinsurancequotes.com"
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