Which Domain Would Rank?

looking to create a new site with new domain

[Chef_Brian]

Hello Everyone,

I have been using hyphen's for my domain names with a certain amount of positive results with the search engines like google and others.

Currently I am researching new soon to be new domain name and am finding that many of the domain names have already been snached up.

Do you feel using a number such as 2 or 4 in the middle of a domain name to split two key words would rank just as high as the same domain name using the hyphen's?

Hyphen Example:

www.keyword-keyword.com

Number Example:

www.keyword2keyword.com

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for the help,

Chef Brian

[NeedScripts]

I would say www.keyword-keyword.com :)

[Chef_Brian]

Agreed.

And I would prefer to purchase that style domain. However if it is taken ....then what. Do you think the number style domain name would do well for both keywords.

Chef Brian

[john316]

Have you considered the "double dash" domain?

keyword--keyword.com

[Chef_Brian]

That might do the trick John ;-)

Cheers,

Chef Brian

[NeedScripts]

double dash domain might not be the best, if you are expecting people to type in the url - cuz I think, then you are just giving away the traffic :(

try looking for other alternatives. I know sometimes it gets hard - we own about 200 + domains and sometimes to find a right kind, you have to work a lot.

[toolman]

>>keyword--keyword.com

I wouldn't go that route. Better to stay under the spamdar and fly with something more common. Have you tried reversing things a little like keyword2-keyword1.com.

[Chef_Brian]

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the ideas and tips, I spent about 3 hours Sunday evening and did some serious research on a popular key word phrase for my new affiliate site. I am very happy with the results of my efforts, however I did have to run with a two hephen domain.

www.keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.com

Hope this will fly with google, all my soon to be competators are using these types of urls, many with 5 or 6 key words stuffed in there! Silly ;-)

Anyway, it is a great find and should do well ;-)

With a little pagerank of course.

Chef Brian

[NeedScripts]

Congratulations on finding a good domain. But if in future you cannot find a good domain, then why not try another approach.

Buy a 3 or 4 letter domain like www.abcd.com and create subdomains the way you want/like it.

There are several benefits, and yeah, you don't have to pay registration fees every year for sub domains :)

What I do is, get sub domain and give them seperate IP and host them on seperate account. so if someone tries www.domin.com/subdomainname it won't work, but only www.subdomain.domain.com will work. And I am sure you are aware of the fact, that search engines treat sub domain as seperate domain, so why not save money while making good web sites.

[Thirdcatgy]

>>What I do is, get sub domain and give them seperate IP and host >>them on seperate account. so if someone tries www.subdomain.domain.com will work. And I am sure you are aware of the fact, that search engines treat sub domain as seperate domain, >>so why not save money while making good web sites.

That's a nice idea however, with relevance in mind, you do think the SE's could put additional emphasis put on keyword strings between www. and .com?