SEO vs. humans....
Personally I'd avoid hyphens, but that's just me
Thanks for the opinions folks. I don't know how I feel about them myself really. I don't really trust hyphenated domains I think. But unfortunately its all I have... and cant really afford the unhyphenated version. Anywho. Thanks for the info folks. I'll work on it anyway but thanks again.
Hi all,
Just a quick question really... I want to see what the general outlook or opinions are on hyphenated domain names, I bought one recently but am unsure whether to use it as I might plump a few euros and buy it unhyphenated... Does it make a huge difference?
For what it's worth, I believe that Google has stated somewhere that more than one (or maybe 2 - I'd have to try to find the comment) hyphen may be interpreted as a negative signal for them.
For what it's worth, I believe that Google has stated somewhere that more than one (or maybe 2 - I'd have to try to find the comment) hyphen may be interpreted as a negative signal for them.
Quite sure you'll find it in one of Matt Cutt's videos.Hi,
Can you grab the source for this, would be very interested.
thanks
For what it's worth, I believe that Google has stated somewhere that more than one (or maybe 2 - I'd have to try to find the comment) hyphen may be interpreted as a negative signal for them.
One oter interesting thing to consider - take a look at the domain market. You'll notice that hyphenated domains tend to have far lower values these days. That's probably also a good indicator of which choice to make. I'd take the hyphen-less if you can.
Ron Jackson is one SEO analyst who looks at hyphenated domain names and their ranking. This might be of interest: Monte talks to Matthew OBrien & Ron Jackson Hyphens and SEO are being studied quite a bit.
Matthew O'Brien said:And when you research a keyword, you know . . . I'll give you some of the lower ranking options there, but typically, you know, a hyphen is just . . . typically, it helps the search engines to know where it can read those things sometimes better. As long as you're not too spammy and put too many hyphens in, you're actually getting clear separation of the words.