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Word(s) separated by a hyphen

by Mania112
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If, in Google, someone searches 'auto enrolment' will 'auto-enrolment' be a findable result (and vice versa)?
#hyphen #separated #words
  • Profile picture of the author carlinws
    Originally Posted by Mania112 View Post

    If, in Google, someone searches 'auto enrolment' will 'auto-enrolment' be a findable result (and vice versa)?
    Google will return results for the 2 word combo and for the combined word. It's a way underused technique.

    Check Matt Cutts blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mania112
      Originally Posted by carlinws View Post

      Google will return results for the 2 word combo and for the combined word. It's a way underused technique.

      Check Matt Cutts blog.
      Thank you, that's what I thought.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    hyphens are good and they are considered as a word separator, also it becomes easy for a person to read a url. using hyphens doesn't have any bad effect.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Hyphens are basiclly stop words that get ignored. Search any US phone number with the area code wrapped in parenthesis ().

    Example: (123) 456 7891 will return the same phone number with/without parenthesis.
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