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Squidoo SEO Basic Question.

by stiznef
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When I'm setting my my squidoo lens. Let say the my key word is

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Is it best to make my site squidoo.com/yankeedoodledandy?

or squidoo.com/yankee-doodle-dandy?


Thanks so much everyone.

Stiz
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  • Profile picture of the author CurtisN
    I could be wrong, but I don't think the dashes matter. Google will be able to figure out your keywords either way.
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    • Profile picture of the author thefluffanutta
      Originally Posted by CurtisN View Post

      I could be wrong, but I don't think the dashes matter. Google will be able to figure out your keywords either way.
      Not true - Google uses dashes as word separators (and not underscores).
      Explained in this video:
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      • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
        I'd go hyphens, Matt Cutt's recommends it so it must be good.

        Asides from you wanting to know that..

        I want you to know that to stick at with your Squidoo lenses.

        Work hard at them and test everything.

        You'll learn a lot about SEO. An awful lot.

        I spent a whole year playing with a Squidoo lens to see what I could do with it.

        I put it to the top, moved it back a few hundred, put it back to the top..

        Forced the only article that was pointing to it, just above it..

        I did a lot with a little Squidoo lens, and it taught me a lot too.
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  • Profile picture of the author stiznef
    Thanks Curtis.
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    • Profile picture of the author oregongal
      I use dashes a lot myself and seem to be able to rank well. I think it's easier to read that way sometimes.
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      • Profile picture of the author WendellC
        Stiz -

        Hi.

        I tried searching in Google, Yahoo, and MSN for yankeedoodledandy and they all treated it as Yankee Doodle Dandy.

        However, I can see where there may be some cases where the search engines could parse it incorrectly.

        For example, let's say you had a site that was selling "import ant farms." If you run this together as importantfarms then all three search engines will actually treat this as the phrase "important farms."

        Best to check the phrase on the search engines first, just to make sure they are parsing the phrase the same way you do...

        Just my 2 cents.

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        • Profile picture of the author T.I.M.
          Originally Posted by clickguy View Post

          Stiz -

          However, I can see where there may be some cases where the search engines could parse it incorrectly.

          For example, let's say you had a site that was selling "import ant farms." If you run this together as importantfarms then all three search engines will actually treat this as the phrase "important farms."

          Best to check the phrase on the search engines first, just to make sure they are parsing the phrase the same way you do...

          Wendell
          Makes sense, thanks for this.

          Also in Squidoo they keyword phrase will more than likely be taken so try with dashes between relevant words or each word.
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  • Profile picture of the author MaggieDavid
    Hi, I use both methods, depending on what the keyword or long string keyword is and if it makes sense when you look at it, and honestly I rank very, very well with both methods.

    Hope this helps
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