Domain Name - bluewidgets.com or blue-widgets.com

I think i made the wrong choice!

[netnerd]

I am promoting a website for the keyowrd phrase blue widgets. I bought the url bluewidgets.com instead of blue-widgets.com

Now, I realise that blue-widgets.com is better as google sees the - as a space, but does anyone know if google can pick out 'blue' + 'widgets' from 'bluewidgets'?

[Andrew Thomas]

does anyone know if google can pick out 'blue' + 'widgets' from 'bluewidgets'?

dont think so :(

[netnerd]

I didnt either :(

[shaadi]

simple use: bluewidgets.com/blue-widgets

[netnerd]

not so simple!

REALLY competitive term so a TLD gives a big advantage

[chiyo]

I really wouldnt worry. The evidence for one or the other is not equivocal. If anything, my guess is that any advantage in domain names will go down rather than up. In the meantime you have the type-in advantage and maybe a less-spammy look to users!

[netnerd]

I do agree that the name advantage will go down in time, but it would be nice to have it to get me started! lol

It is probably a good thing - it will test my optimisation skills more.

[trillianjedi]

Is blue-widgets.com still available?

Just buy it - what's the problem?

I suspect also that domain name importance is on the decrease, but right now it's still up there. So take advantage of it while you can.

Buy the domain and do a 301 redirect.

TJ

[netnerd]

It is taken - it was my first preference.

[trillianjedi]

Then go for blue-widgets-online.com

Or your major three keyword phrase.

TJ

[Ove]

Buy both of them!

/Ove

[georgeek]

netnerd Take the most frequent 'blue widgets antherkeyword' search phrase and see if the domain blue-widgets-antherkeyword.com is available. As pointed out in the forums many times this will give you some advantage of relevant anchor text in inbound links over which you have no say in how they should look.

In my experience the relevance of inbound link anchor text is not decreasing and in my opinion is most unlikely to do so for domains with one or two hyphens.

[dmorison]

My domain name is made up of two English language words. Say that it is

bluewidgets.com

If then, in Yahoo, I search for blue+foo+bar (where foo and bar are enough to single out my site) then the listing appears with the domain name highlighted kind of like:

bluewidgets.com

... so I think you'll be ok if "blue" and "widgets" are commonplace in their own right.

[netnerd]

Thats true!

I wonder does google also apply this rule?