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]

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]

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]

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]

hypens can change the meaning sometimes...so avoid them.

[Michael]

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