dashes in acronym domain?

[anxvariety]

Hello,

I hear people here talking about putting dashes in domains like: widgets-for-less.com I personally prefer leaving out dashes and in my experience have gotten better rankings that way.

My question:

If dashes are acceptable as spacing, would dashes in an acronym qualify as an apporpriate way of presenting it?

For example. If there was a Widget of America Association that is commonly referred to as WAA, would google consider W-A-A keyword as the same? I am going to use it in the domain name W-A-A.com.. I already have experience with that being relevant, my question is more on the semantics of google.

anx

[Eric in Tennessee]

I believe that whatever is inside the hyphens are the keywords. And I believe that www.blue-wiget.com would rank better than www.bluewidget.com with all things being equal. Because GG doesn't seperate words, who is going to type in bluewidget as one word?

I remember reading something about this either in here or, (SHH) somewhere else.

EricTn

Oh, So if people type in WAA as opposed to W A A it will not help, actually come to think of it, I believe that all 1 and 2 letter words are filtered out, maybe 3 letter words too. Not sure about the 3 letter besides THE.

[rfgdxm1]

w-w-a.com would NOT get any benefit from a search on "wwa". You need a domain with "wwa".

[anxvariety]

what about vice versa?

searches of:
"WWA"
"W-W-A"
"W W A"

return the same top 5 sites..

so google is interpreting them as the same thing right?

anx

[rfgdxm1]

But I'm not sure that if someone linked to you with a straight link with no anchortext [w-w-a.com...] Google would give you "wwa" benefit. Has anyone ever investigated how Google would treat the situation he refers to? Unless you know Google does it a specific way, I wouldn't suggest betting they do on a guess.

[vincevincevince]

searches of:
"WWA"
"W-W-A"
"W W A"

Or the top sites for WWA have good SEO (hence high results position) AND the webmaster is cunning enough to include WWA W-W-A and W W A within the site (i know i do)

ie:
Title: WWA.com : a W W A site for W-W-A fans.
welcome to my page about WWA. W-W-A is known for blah. etc.