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Keywords in domain

Use a hyphen or not

         

chairwars

12:40 pm on Nov 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If I was to have my two keywords in my domain, would I be better having keywordkeyword dot com or keyword-keyword dot com.

Or does it not make any difference?
Will it affect search engines etc.?

Receptional

12:43 pm on Nov 6, 2003 (gmt 0)



This is discussed all over WebmasterWorld.

For my money and given the choice I buy both, then I put a hypen in for SEO stuff and use a non hyphen for offline marketing, so I can track the difference.

Dixon.

nakulgoyal

10:26 pm on Nov 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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chairwars

I also vote for Dixon!

chairwars

10:56 pm on Nov 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for the reply. I've just noticed that keywordkeyword dot com isn't available but keywordkeyword dot net is. So now am I better going with keywordkeyword dot net and keyword-keyword dot com

or

keywordkeyword dot net and keyword-keyword dot net?

Hope that makes sense.

Smiley

12:38 pm on Nov 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>keywordkeyword dot net and keyword-keyword dot net?

Forget the hyphen, go for the first. Or even a generic domain.

Have you ever tried explaining the hypen over the phone?

Look at some success stories...
e-bay
webmaster-world

Patrick Taylor

11:43 am on Nov 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



The question was:

Does it not make any difference?
Will it affect search engines etc.?

and I think the answer to that specific question is that it does make a difference.