Why Hyphenate Your Domain Name?

Why www.blog-news.com (hyphenated) and not www.blognews.com (non-hyphenated)?

The current main search engine (Google) doesn’t recognize the individual words from the above non-hyphenated domain names, so they would not help future optimization plans. The hyphenated domain http://www.blog-news.com is seen by Google as- www blog news com since Google treats . (dots) and – (hyphens) as a space. We say “google can parse those keywords out of the domain name”.

Note a domain with a single keyword (i.e www.keyword.tld) will have the single keyword recognized since Google sees the two dots (in the example above) as spaces. So when choosing a domain name either go with a single keyword domain or have multiple (or at least one) keyword(s) separated by hyphens.

By Sparky in Domain Names, Google Rank, Keywords, Tips

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