To hyphen or not

What do I do with the other one?

[dbdev]

I have purchased two .cn domain names. If my domain names are word1word2word3.cn and word1-word2-word3.cn, which domain name should I use for the site (the one with hyphens? or the one without). Second part to the question is what should I do with the other name (redirect to the domain name which hosts the site?) I thought about duplicating the site so that both domain names will result in the same content but heard that was bad for search engines.

Please advise,
Best Regards,
Michael Crawford.

[globay]

You should use word1-word2-word3.cn since Google won't recognize the keywords in the other domain. Don't use duplicate content. Instead you should use a 301 redirect for the other domain.

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globay

[obisghost]

I have hunted high and low definitive information on the advantages/disadvantages of hyphen versus no hyphen. I am still not convinced that Google has trouble with words not separated by a hyphen. If someone could provide me with clear evidence to the contrary I would be most appreciative.

[heini]

>Google has trouble with words not separated by a hyphen

Google does not recognize the parts of compound words. For a proof just look at what gets highlighted in the cached versions of pages.
Try with whitehouse vs White House.
Now all of this doesn't necc mean much about hyphenated vs compound domain names.
The possible advantage of hyphenated domain names is only in one point: when used as anchortext it automatically includes the targetetd keywords.
On the other hand there are significant shortcomings to hyphenated domain names.

[MajikalJay]

Use both domains :) With separate DNS addresses just incase 1 DNS server happens to go down.

[zooloo]

I have hunted high and low definitive information on the advantages/disadvantages of hyphen versus no hyphen. I am still not convinced...

Hyphens - because Googleguy says so.

Sorry cannot find the thread. (Actually cannot be bothered to look, lol)

zooloo

[globay]

"Use both domains :) With separate DNS addresses just incase 1 DNS server happens to go down."

I would not agree to that. You will probably get most of your visitors from google, and duplicate content will certainly damage your ranking.

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globay