Webmaster Forum - View Single Post - Hyphenated keyword domains - better for anchor-text?

tigermann · 05-14-2004, 12:27 PM

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Incidentally why do you feel a hyphenated domain is unfriendly?
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Not all, but some of the longer ones - but perhaps more importantly, unless you also buy the unhyphenated version and point it to your website you are bound to lose traffic to whoever owns your unhyphenated namesake.

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it is not real common that people link using the domain name. that is more the exception than the rule in my opinion.
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It depends on the industry - I find those 1-person sites, managed by a "novice-webmaster" quite often just hyperlink your domain name or your url.

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.... it is still really important that you get some of your keywords in the domain name so that it is easier to get inbound links with those keywords in them
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I don't disagree - in fact it was the premise I started the post with - my question is about hyphenated versus non-hyphenated keyword domains, not about keyword domains versus non-keyword domains.
Here is the question again:
If novice-webmasters choose to just hyperlink your domain, would it make a difference if your domain is
keyword1keyword2.com
instead of
keyword1-keyword2.com

Thanks.

05-14-2004, 12:27 PM	#4 (permalink)
tigermann Contributing Member Join Date: 10-14-03 Location: UK Posts: 181 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	<<<<<<< Incidentally why do you feel a hyphenated domain is unfriendly? <<<<<<< Not all, but some of the longer ones - but perhaps more importantly, unless you also buy the unhyphenated version and point it to your website you are bound to lose traffic to whoever owns your unhyphenated namesake. <<<<<<< it is not real common that people link using the domain name. that is more the exception than the rule in my opinion. <<<<<<<< It depends on the industry - I find those 1-person sites, managed by a "novice-webmaster" quite often just hyperlink your domain name or your url. <<<<<<< .... it is still really important that you get some of your keywords in the domain name so that it is easier to get inbound links with those keywords in them <<<<<< I don't disagree - in fact it was the premise I started the post with - my question is about hyphenated versus non-hyphenated keyword domains, not about keyword domains versus non-keyword domains. Here is the question again: If novice-webmasters choose to just hyperlink your domain, would it make a difference if your domain is keyword1keyword2.com instead of keyword1-keyword2.com Thanks.