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Ok or bad to use hyphens between letters of one word domain ie s-e-x.com or j-o-b- s.com? - Jessica G - 04-08-2014 04:47 AM
If the logo has a line through the middle making the hyphens memorable? Can't find any of these in use except a-d-u-l-t.com Why? Is it ok to do? Would it affect seo? It's a charity and so its a site for info plus things for sale.
- Minister of Truth - 04-08-2014 04:51 AM
for one thing, makes typos more likely.
if you like the hyphens, be good to register also a non-hyphenated site.com
and have it redirect to the hyphenated site.
duno abt seo.
- Jake - 04-08-2014 05:01 AM
While technically they are acceptable word separators, I have heard that Google measures the effectiveness of their junk site detectors by counting the number with hyphens.
I find hyphens hell to have to type in from a business card, etc. assume search engines will not provide valuable keyword matching to words split by hyphens,
Dog-Training.com may be nearly as good as dogTraining.com for ranking, d-ogtraining may go unrecognized.
- Rob - 04-08-2014 05:04 AM
hypens can change the meaning sometimes...so avoid them.
- Michael - 04-08-2014 05:09 AM
I don't think hyphens affects SEO at all i have sights ranked in google for hyphens keywords however i don't redmond using them at all because its not good marketing wise.
People always forget to tip in the hyphen and its easier to remember a website without hyphens.
Cheers