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Old 04-03-2010, 12:14:56 PM     #15 (permalink)
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Surely it is totally illogical for Google or any other search engine to penalise a web site because it contains a hyphen in the name? To rate the non-hyphened domain over the hyphen domain when the content at the latter may be far superior doesn’t hit the logic button for me! Isn't there an element of 'The Emperor’s New Clothes' about this from the domain community, hoping some unsuspecting muppet will come along and pick up the non-hyphened version just because he reads on the internet that this is better?

If you type in any one of millions of multi-word searches, you'll end up with a list of sites topped by domain names with no similarity whatsoever to the phrase you searched for, because:

1- It is the content that is king.
2- The phrased domain name, whether hyphened or not, is sitting unused in the portfolio of a domainer, and is therefore irrelevant!
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