Is it wrong the use of hyphen in the domain

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Hi again!

I have this blog that in November I bought the domain: hxxp://www.como-ganar-masa-muscular-rapido.com and some people told me that can be penalized by Google. Is that true?
#domain #hyphen #wront
  • Profile picture of the author lkears11
    Domain names are not an exact science. People still debate emd's. Content and backlinks is still the main aim.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    There are very successful and well known sites with hyphens in them and they certainly aren't penalised.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    That domain is so long you'll never get repeat traffic, nobody will remember that.
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    • Profile picture of the author ccastell23
      What do you recommend? Should I change that domain for another shorter?
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      That domain is so long you'll never get repeat traffic, nobody will remember that.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by ccastell23 View Post

        What do you recommend? Should I change that domain for another shorter?
        Well, you didn't even attempt to brand the domain, start with branding.

        Examples:
        • ebay
        • nike
        • apple
        • amazon
        • ford
        • etc...

        That list above is easy to remember.

        You won't see brands like ford.com with domains like best-car-to-buy-albuquerque.com, the reason is traffic would never remember the domain name/URL.

        Traffic will never remember the hyphen so you'll most likely have your could have been repeat traffic landing on the competitions site/page that has the same domain text without the hyphens.

        You have to make things simple for traffic, they will not work to find your site/page. Trying to remember where to put hyphens while searching for a site is unnecessary work.
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  • Profile picture of the author sprice
    As yukon said. The domain won't be penalized. But good luck getting repeat traffic. I think consumers may see shorter "branded" names as more authority like sites... could be wrong though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tashiads
    That domain name is not going to be penalized by Google, but who will remember or use that kind of domain name?Always use eye catchy and easy pronounceable domain names..
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  • Profile picture of the author Hrkjds
    The first point is that your domain name looks odd..too long, not at all attractive and even not easy to remember..as suggestions are given above..always use your domain name for branding purpose..make it worthy to remember..
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