Hyphenated domain name is good or bad for seo perspective

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  1. toporganicseo New Member

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    Hello,

    Pls tell me that Hyphenated domain name is good or bad for seo perspective.

    I did more researches on web and found that we should not book Hyphenated domain names. Now let me know your views on the same.
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    They rank just as well as non hyphenated domains if seo is performed correctly , Its just another way to get a keyword domain which is already taken IMO
  3. intellg New Member

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    I always prefer domain which relate to your products and services.
  4. ptgengye New Member

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    I don't really understand this - "should not book Hyphenated domain names". :(
    In my own experiences, domains with or without hyphens would not have impacts on your SEO efforts. The contents and backlinks judge SERP. :)

    Have a nice day,
  5. Hafsoh New Member

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    People may use hyphen when they don't want lost the domain name, however this is not an issue; if your content is good people will not even notice your url . problem is just that sometimes we forgot that hyphen and therefore leading to wrong landing page.All in all hyphen does not influence SERP!
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    From SEO perspective hyphens are not necessary, as SEs use dictionary lookups to split the url into words. However, hyphens can make some domains more readable to humans - e.g. compare computersuk.com vs. computers-uk.com!!
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    if you are not able to buy the keyword you where looking for...than you can go for the hyphen domain.....all search engines...see it as normal one...and you can beat the real key word too..if you are good at it
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    if you are not getting correctly you product domain then you can buy hyphen domain, its have no problem at least you will get you product domain.
  9. sazymi New Member

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    Using hyphened in a domain is fine, in Google hyphen or dash is considered as a space. So i don't think there will be some problem will occur while using it.
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