Domain with hyphens or without?

by samuelbell

Posted: 15 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hello Guys

I am about to buy a domain name, I have a 3 word ''key word''

For example should I buy?

Youtubereviews.com, or should I use hyphens You-Tube-reviews.com?

Any help is most appreciated

#domain #hyphens

zen_affiliate 15 years ago

Buy each domain.
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- samuelbell 15 years ago
  
  Which one would be best for ranking in Google?
  
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dh2312 15 years ago

Here's the quick down-low on hyphens.

Some people think that using hyphens in your URL looks spammy, but in the example you use: Youtubereviews.com, I think it looks better and is more readable with the hyphens in it. That is personal opinion.

The other consideration is that, although search engines can usually parse the words in a URL that has no hyphens, it is easier for them to do so in URLs that have hyphens. Therefore, if you are concerned about SEO, you should use the hyphens.

-Dave
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- Stefan Vee 15 years ago
  
  Think in an auditory way...
  
  When you hear a radio or TV commercial, have you ever heard a hyphen in a domain name?
  
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  Curt Dillion 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Stefan Vee
  
  Think in an auditory way...
  
  When you hear a radio or TV commercial, have you ever heard a hyphen in a domain name?
  
  Nope, and I haven't heard them say youtubereviews as one word, either.
  
  It's easier for me to read the domain when it has hyphens, and I don't believe that it matters one whit for SEO. Lots of hyphenated domains rank well, and get plenty of traffic.
  
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  samuelbell 15 years ago
  
  Thanks for all your wonderful help, I have decided to go with a domain that contains no hyphen's although I might buy the hyphened one in the future.
  
  Thank you all
  
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- samuelbell 15 years ago
  
  Thanks Dave
  
  so URL's with hyphens in rank better because Google can identify the words with more precision?
  
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  jimbo21 15 years ago
  
  I own talk-baseball.com
  
  Our main competitor is baseball-fever.com
  
  Both of our sites are very successful and the hyphens have not seemed to have any sort of negative affect.
  
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johnjimat 15 years ago

i would choose youtubereviews.com. i dont like that "-" .
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- Mike Shain 15 years ago
  
  This topic is frequently discussed. You can read more in this thread.
  
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Marhelper 15 years ago

I use to wrestle with this but no more. I have had sites rank on G's 1st page with and without the -
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zen_affiliate 15 years ago

Which one would be best for ranking in Google?
Whichever has better content & backlinking.
Buy each to mitigate competition.
Build each with differences to reach across your target demographic.
Track each for your own edification.
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ajm5050 15 years ago

SEO wise it might make sense to have hyphens but I think people hate it, as they say it makes URLs look spammy. One of the site which I'm not actively working on anymore has one hyphen and it used to rank no.1 on both yahoo and msn, but for some reason I wasn't getting the sort of traffic that I should have been for the term. It was just a single experience but I thought I'd share.
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