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Question about Partial use of Hyphens in Domain

by teachingking
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I know there are many who oppose the use of hyphens period.

That said, I am wondering what would be preferable between the following sample domain names.

iscakefat-free
is-cake-fat-free
iscakefatfreefood

I am guessing that it won't make much difference search engine wise. I personally prefer the one that is fully hyphenated.

Would appreciate any feedback.
#domain #hyphens #partial #question
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    How about iscakefatfreeblog.com. There's quite a few other words you can substitute "blog" for.

    Works just as well and you have a brandable domain name that doesn't share bad company with the thousands of spammers out there who through together crap content, awful themes and long hyphenated domains.
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  • Profile picture of the author teachingking
    Yes, but aren't I better of with an exact keyword phrase match in the domain? Won't adding 'blog' to the domain hurt this?

    Why are hyphenated domains associated with "spammers"?

    I'm certainly planning on building quality niche sites with good content.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by teachingking View Post

      Yes, but aren't I better of with an exact keyword phrase match in the domain? Won't adding 'blog' to the domain hurt this?

      Why are hyphenated domains associated with "spammers"?

      I'm certainly planning on building quality niche sites with good content.
      No it will not hurt your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulrigby
    Originally Posted by teachingking View Post

    I know there are many who oppose the use of hyphens period.

    That said, I am wondering what would be preferable between the following sample domain names.

    iscakefat-free
    is-cake-fat-free
    iscakefatfreefood

    I am guessing that it won't make much difference search engine wise. I personally prefer the one that is fully hyphenated.

    Would appreciate any feedback.
    Domain names with short and keyword in it without hyphen will be best for optimizing and getting ranked in search engines. Now it is content plays an important role in ranking in search engine result page.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMSince2003
    Unlike some others on the forum, I have absolutely no problem with hyphens in a domain name. I have, unfortunately, noticed that doing things like iscakefatfreeblog can actually get you ranked first for "is cake fat free blog". Yep, it's happened to me, but never when I've done things like is-cakefatfree.com or any hyphenated variant. I too like the fully hyphenated name, but if the .com is not available, the other variant would be just fine too.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    Hyphens act as good keyword separator... but algorithms are getting very advance and use of hyphens won’t do wonders for your keyword ranking. So, to me, it really does not matter whether my domain has keyword separator or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheLinkMaster
    The best are the ones without hypehns, but I would prefer domains that are partially hyphenated than addng prefix.
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  • Profile picture of the author quercus5
    I have a fairly large website thats currently climbed to 2 and 5 in google with 2 different keywords, and it has 2 hyphens in it. I didn't know people frowned upon them when I bought the domain with hyphens, don't know if it slowed down my SERP rise but I think if I had to go back and do it again I would have just bought a normal domain.
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