Comments on: SEO – Domain names, hyphens and usability http://www.webcopywriter.com.au/2008/08/seo-domain-names-hyphens-and-usability/ How to amplify your website with SEO and cracking copywriting Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:23:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Allen http://www.webcopywriter.com.au/2008/08/seo-domain-names-hyphens-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Allen Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:50:40 +0000 http://www.web-copywriter.com.au/?p=121#comment-68 Go to the link at the top of this post - Google now prefers no dash. So if someone is looking for Arizona Computer Repair, arizonacomputerrepair.com will rank higher in search. Go to the link at the top of this post – Google now prefers no dash. So if someone is looking for Arizona Computer Repair, arizonacomputerrepair.com will rank higher in search.

]]> By: Arizona Computer Repair http://www.webcopywriter.com.au/2008/08/seo-domain-names-hyphens-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Arizona Computer Repair Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:17:41 +0000 http://www.web-copywriter.com.au/?p=121#comment-67 So what is the best option here? Is it to use a dash or not to use a dash. Am I better off using Arizona-Computer-Repair.com or ArizonaComputerRepair.com? So what is the best option here? Is it to use a dash or not to use a dash. Am I better off using Arizona-Computer-Repair.com or ArizonaComputerRepair.com?

]]> By: Ztrive http://www.webcopywriter.com.au/2008/08/seo-domain-names-hyphens-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Ztrive Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:07:59 +0000 http://www.web-copywriter.com.au/?p=121#comment-39 If drillbits.com and raycostanza.com are redirected to drill-bits.com they will do nothing for SEO. If you redirect something then Google is smart enough to only index the destination page. Unless the other domains are already indexed, and you then use 301=permanent redirect, then PageRank gets carried forward. For drillbits.com and raycostanza.com to do anything for SEO they need to be landing pages or point to same site as drill-bits.com (if chosen as main site, see below). Although in some circumstances that can be considered "black hat" SEO, not always recommended. If drill-bits.com is chosen as main site, and drillbits.com is used on all stationery, then you will waste PageRank for potentially having people adding links (important offpage SEO) to the "wrong domain". If drillbits.com and raycostanza.com are redirected to drill-bits.com they will do nothing for SEO. If you redirect something then Google is smart enough to only index the destination page. Unless the other domains are already indexed, and you then use 301=permanent redirect, then PageRank gets carried forward.

For drillbits.com and raycostanza.com to do anything for SEO they need to be landing pages or point to same site as drill-bits.com (if chosen as main site, see below). Although in some circumstances that can be considered “black hat” SEO, not always recommended.

If drill-bits.com is chosen as main site, and drillbits.com is used on all stationery, then you will waste PageRank for potentially having people adding links (important offpage SEO) to the “wrong domain”.

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