iain123

tbh if you look at some of those earn quick money sites etc they have around 4 in them,supposed to marked as spam sites with that many but they rank well in google
get-rich-quick-schemes-example.com
i would only be worried if you are concerned about type ins someone trying to find your site again might type without the hyphens ending up on the other site without hyphens
for seo purposes it will rank just the same as without
well thats my opinion

newguy

You won't find out why, because for SEO purposes it doesn't make a difference. Okay, perhpas if you have several hyphens, but one or even two shouldn't hurt you at all.

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diablo

I have actually experimented with this and there is no disadvantage in terms of seo for a hyphenated domain name.

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HariSeldon

Do you have a reference for this?

The last time I checked it was the exact opposite. Matt Cutts from Google categorically stated that hyphens are treated as word separators which means from an SEO point of view you can accurately target your primary keywords.

retired_member12

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!

chatman2222

Hear hear!

oka7domain

Depends on the keywords, hyphened or not? If It's a non hypens then could the name be read as exactly as the keywords You actually want [ex: offerme.co.uk, sometimes can be read as "of ferme" for some search engines or keyword estimation software rather than offer me, in this case it would be better to have the hypen one]. But I think google will not "discriminate" the hypens or non hypens .

But if You're going to target the type in traffics for Your name, hypened names will lose competition to non hypens as visitors tend to type the non hypen names. [ex. beveragebrand.com will always ranks higher than beverage-brand.com for the type in traffics as people tends to type beveragebrand with no hypens] except germans for Their own words, They tend to type hypens. CMIIW

but SEO for articles is always about content , content, and........ content

mattjerry

This is SEO on creating articles right? i uses both of the two...and don't think for any differences between them...
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spondishy

Well I have the google serps that back me up for millions of search queries and my own domains.

Obviously do your own research, but these are my findings.

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