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To hyphen or not

by katied772
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When choosing a domain where you want to focus on three similar things, such as Parrots, Canaries and Lovebirds, is it best to do it as parrotscanarieslovebirds.com or parrots-canaries-lovebirds.com or even ParrotsCanariesLovebirds.com?
Thanks
#hyphen
  • Profile picture of the author Beverley Boorer
    the one with the dashes stood out more clearly to me
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Dashes mean something, like delineating words.

      There is no need to use 3 words like that in any domain.

      I'll bet if one did a search for Parrots, Canaries and Lovebirds,
      any order, that hardly any "domains" in the top would have
      any words like that.

      What you are proposing to do, is just what google is
      trying to avoid. I could go on and on about why you are
      going to that, and why you shouldn't. But it would
      fall on deaf ears.

      Doesn't anyone actually want to step into 2012? Now, and
      not in 2016?

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      • Profile picture of the author ZmB
        No hyphen if possible. I can't prove that there is no negative effect but there may be one in the future. I bet some experts could prove hyphen is less as great as no hyphen.
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  • Profile picture of the author Carl Brown
    Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

    When choosing a domain where you want to focus on three similar things, such as Parrots, Canaries and Lovebirds, is it best to do it as parrotscanarieslovebirds.com or parrots-canaries-lovebirds.com or even ParrotsCanariesLovebirds.com?
    Thanks
    ParrotsCanariesLovebirds.com is exactly the same as parrotscanarieslovebirds.com

    Anything to the left of the .com can be capitalized. It's only written that way to be more readable by humans. I have a similar domain and I'm promoting it with flyers and ads in small freebie papers offline. I capitalize the first letter of each word so the reader can remember the domain. Dashes work, but they look so spammy..
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  • Profile picture of the author CherylMorgan
    Having hyphen in domain is making it more readable and understandable actually.
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