Hyphens - who likes them? who hates them?

[GT Web]

Its been interesting for me trying to sell my hyphen name...

Some people like hyphens, helps with search engines and the like....

Other people absolutly cant stand hyphens in domain names.....

Just wondering who here likes what?

 

[Anthony Ng]

When you couldn't even sell web-based.com for $300 (I mean 3 years ago, not now), you'd HATE ALL hyphenated names.

 

[domainduck]

If you use hyphenated domain names correctly - honestly, they add greater SE visibility. I always get the hyphenated version of domain names that I want stronger control over.

 

[bidawinner]

Originally posted by domainduck
If you use hyphenated domain names correctly - honestly, they add greater SE visibility. I always get the hyphenated version of domain names that I want stronger control over.

Quak... I agree..

 

[JMJ]

I like them for keyword usage and positioning. Anyone ever checked the OV results on "-" Searches done in May 2003 Count Search Term 170206 -

 

[stuff]

I really don`t like them, but I have registered some.

 

[Steen]

Originally posted by JoltHost
I like them for keyword usage and positioning. Anyone ever checked the OV results on "-" Searches done in May 2003 Count Search Term 170206 -

OVT doesnt do hyphens, they count as a <space>

About hyphens, I never get high in SEs So I hate em, although my site has the worst domain ever, including a hyphen


One good thing, companies LOVE hyphens, but when a company wants you hyphen name, your usually looking @ a C&D, not a sale..

 

[JMJ]

Originally posted by devildude8989


OVT doesnt do hyphens, they count as a <space>

It appears to me that they count hyphens considering I got the above results from their keyword tool. To a search engine thislongword.com is just thislongword. Now it will find "this" in thislongword.com but it won't give it as good as a point value as the "this" in this-long-word.com. Now content will overcome this and I have done this with my hosting name. Some 15 year old decided he liked my name so he went a registered jolt-host.com and at one time he was getting a better positioning but luckily I have a little more experience in these things than he.

 

[JMJ]

Here's another bit of search engine recognition. See #39


Nos Count Keyword
===========================================
1 170855 travel
2 132592 hotels
3 122629 jokes
4 119472 people search
5 115414 health
6 114510 autos
7 111784 google
8 108489 ebay
9 89701 yahoo
10 75757 lyrics
11 73904 Weight Loss
12 67207 hotmail
13 62248 april fools
14 58851 dictionary
15 58242 yahoo.com
16 57044 mapquest
17 56865 song lyrics
18 56331 prom dresses
19 54222 hotmail.com
20 52283 games
21 50236 maps
22 49502 weather
23 48563 search engines
24 47164 Free People Search
25 46325 cars
26 45412 news
27 43961 kazaa
28 42976 blank
29 41048 parent
30 40038 books
31 39957 mortgages
32 39054 jobs
33 39013 ask jeeves
34 37296 recipes
35 37003 music
36 36022 milf
37 35314 white pages
38 34920 cnn
39 33822 -
40 33603 yellow pages
41 33361 www.yahoo.com
42 32950 free clip art
43 32662 baby names
44 32434 Used Cars
45 31815 lingerie
46 31594 insurance quotes
47 31414 www.hotmail.com
48 31157 clip art
49 30888 kelly blue book
50 30853 author
51 30758 quotes
52 30677 ebay.com

 

[mole]

I think it just looks plain ugly as a branding tool.

Imagine this site was dn-forum.com.

 

[boychik]

Originally posted by mole
I think it just looks plain ugly as a branding tool.

Imagine this site was dn-forum.com.

No need to imagine ..

Domain name- dn-forum.com


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