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Newbie Domain Name Question...

by Russell Turner
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...that has been asked a million times before.

best-car-reviews.com or bestcarreviews.com if you had to choose which of these would be your preferred domain name and why?

Thanks guys, Russ.
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  • Profile picture of the author Burtgummer
    Originally Posted by Russell Turner View Post

    ...that has been asked a million times before.

    best-car-reviews.com or bestcarreviews.com if you had to choose which of these would be your preferred domain name and why?

    Thanks guys, Russ.
    Always go for non-hypehnated domain names first. They will always be of more value because you do not want 'special' characters. A-Z is the best if possible.
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  • Profile picture of the author rahulchandra
    Originally Posted by Russell Turner View Post

    ...that has been asked a million times before.

    best-car-reviews.com or bestcarreviews.com if you had to choose which of these would be your preferred domain name and why?

    Thanks guys, Russ.
    Russ,
    Have a look
    best car reviews - Google Search

    Do you see a single domain with "-" ?

    A domain without dashes is good for SEO as compared to same name with dashes,this is my understanding, although which one will rank higher
    totally depends on how much work you put into it, i.e, back links and on page optimization..

    I think dashed domains are easier to read though
    Rahul
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    • Profile picture of the author Ray Erdmann
      Don't know the date of this article, but from all the reports, books and PDF's I've read over just the last few months, I've still not heard a 'definitive' answer regarding the use of 'dashes' in ones domain name and whether it HELPS or hurts when it comes to pure SEO 'love' from the search engines.

      Personally speaking though, I would, as my first option, go with NO DASHES with a 'dot-com' domain. If that one was taken, then what's better..

      online-car-reviews.com or onlinecarreviews.net ????

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  • Profile picture of the author Vaan
    Originally Posted by Russell Turner View Post

    ...that has been asked a million times before.

    best-car-reviews.com or bestcarreviews.com if you had to choose which of these would be your preferred domain name and why?

    Thanks guys, Russ.
    Hi russell,

    bestcarreviews.com --> Of course this is the domain you must choose..

    Like rahull said, The domain without dashes good for SEO and also it have high value on google,

    Real Case Example --> if you own that one and you compete with others that has same domain name as yours but have a dashes with it, of course you are the WINNER!

    Hope you understand all explained here

    Cheers,
    Vaan
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  • Profile picture of the author Russell Turner
    Thank you for the very swift replies guys, I appreciate it!
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    Yep, the one without the hypens would probably be best.

    I'm not sure if Google penalise you for having a hyphenated name (I personally think they would a bit, but it's never been confirmed nor denied - is just me guessing), although Humans certainly aren't too fond of hyphenated domains.

    If it was me, I'd prefer to click ads/spend money on a site with domain (say) BestCarReviews.com instead of Best-Car-Reviews.com - the second just doesn't look right to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Taylor
    There's no reason for Google to penalize for hyphens. Their spiders and/or indexing software can easily read the domain and ignore the hyphens.

    People use them all the time in the post title part of their URLs with great success. Our own Warrior Forum's software inserts hyphens into the URL and some WF posts get indexed and ranked number one for various keywords.

    I do think the non-hyphenated domain names look the best aesthetically, though. A bunch of hyphens not only needlessly lengthens a domain name, but I think clutters it. Plus, it makes hand typing the name into an address bar a pain.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I buy domains that will potentially have value to the new owners since I sell sites. It is much more difficult to unload a hyphenated domain. I've sold some domains for as much as $900 for the domain only. With hyphens, I wouldn't have gotten a nickel.
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