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magda_
Joined: Jan 04, 2007
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Posted: 2007-Feb-21 21:58
I am planning to register a domain and I have a question regarding the url: so if there are certain key words in the url: does it matter if it goes like that: wwe.bestseourl.com or it would be better: www.best-seo-url.com ?? it is of course an example ??
Does it matter if the hyphen is there or not? And which one is better ??
Thanks,
Magda
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2007-Feb-21 22:41
Don't worry about getting any keywords in a domain magda. Just focus on choosing a domain that is easy for folks to remember and type in. 
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magda_
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Posted: 2007-Feb-22 00:02
Thanks but I am trying to answere someones question, if the hyphen in the url is making any difference or not
I am wondering myself too. I personally think it does not matter.
Magda
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SportsGuy
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Posted: 2007-Feb-22 01:39
The hyphen works as a word searater - so...
theonlinemarketingguy is all one big word in the eyes of a spider, even though it contains actual keywords within it.
the-online-marketing-guy, though, would be seen as the individual words.
The kicker is is harder to get users to recall the hyphens and spell the domain correctly.
That's why I suggested it would be more important to stick with something easy to recall.
There isn't much benefit from a seo perspective to having the keyword in the domain anyway - some folks say there's no benefit at all.
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Dinkar
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Posted: 2007-Feb-22 01:40
search bestseourl in your targeted search engine, if it shows the correct separate words then hyphen doesn't matter.
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ryan_seo_guy
Joined: Feb 22, 2007
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Posted: 2007-Feb-22 20:33
if the domain has hyphens the search engines read it as seperate words and helps with relevency in some search engines. If you use an underscore the search engine sees the word as if it was writen without hyphens at all. These days search engines dont care about the domain name its actual link popularity. However if you name your pages the keywords that are in the title of the page and use a - instead of _ or just pagename.html then you will help search engines to know what the page is about. examle www.yoursite.com/drug-abuse-treatment.html tells the search engine what that page is about just make sure the words are in your title description and Heading tag.
Thats my 2 cents I hope it helped.
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mrlenin
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Posted: 2007-Feb-23 17:22
As for me I never remember the domain name like bla-blabla-bla it's difficult for me and for most of users either. Really domain doesn't matter for search engines because search engines use DNS tables with IP insteaf of names.
[ Message was edited by: Dinkar 02/23/2007 10:46 am ... Reason: edited sig as per TOS. ]
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Curious_Mark
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Posted: 2007-Feb-25 02:15
I think there is no reason not to use a dash, in fact I think it is a great idea. This is my reasoning. We know that with the dash the url can be easily understood as separate words. Clarity is always good. I find search results with the dash between words really easy to focus on.
Who types in URLs from memory? A few percent perhaps, and then only if they have memorized it, or the url name is a well known brand. People will either have a link to click on, or have some kind of copy that shows the proper url of your business or organization.
I would not doubt that an engine might also use the url at least for some degree of organizational design aside from rankings. If so then it would just be that much clearer to engines as data to work with, which can't be a bad thing can it?
Just some thoughts on this magda_, I hope you post here often.
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magda_
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Posted: 2007-Mar-04 02:59
Thanks for the input. I have one web site for testing purposes and the url has key words. The web site is on the first page of Google for these key words in the url. The web site is not even finish yet, does not have any back links and it is very new. Of course it is a niche web site so does not have much competition, but still.
But I asked some other internet gurusī and have been told by few of them including Aaron Wall that it is better without the hyphens.
Anyway would be interesting to check two similar web sites with the same address one with hyphens one without.
Magda
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