Comments on: How to Select Your Domain Names: Dashes, Underscores or Nothing? http://dotcomreport.com/domain-names/how-to-select-your-domain-names-dashes-underscores-or-nothing/ Online Success Secrets & Strategies Tue, 22 May 2012 18:58:49 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: @dare2baware http://dotcomreport.com/domain-names/how-to-select-your-domain-names-dashes-underscores-or-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-4685 @dare2baware Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:19:08 +0000 http://dotcomreport.com/?p=1445#comment-4685 This really leaves it all open to make your own choice and doesn't really say 'what's' best. I am looking to buy a new domain and was just thinking (before finding this article in my Inbox) that a hyphen makes it more 'readable'.... but what about google 'friendly'? __The question reamains. WHAT is the 'better' option? This really leaves it all open to make your own choice and doesn't really say 'what's' best. I am looking to buy a new domain and was just thinking (before finding this article in my Inbox) that a hyphen makes it more 'readable'…. but what about google 'friendly'? __The question reamains. WHAT is the 'better' option?

]]> By: Tom http://dotcomreport.com/domain-names/how-to-select-your-domain-names-dashes-underscores-or-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-2854 Tom Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:26:32 +0000 http://dotcomreport.com/?p=1445#comment-2854 From our own experiences, we recommend using hyphens instead of underscores for domain names. We have noted domains using hyphes tend to rank higher that those with underscores. Strange but we have no explanation currently! The same goes for internal links within web sites. Try as much as possible to use hyphens and not underscores for internal links. We are in the process of changing all our websites to reflect on this reality. This will be quite a long and tedious excercise (we have over 50 sites) but it must be done to so as to improve on our search engine positions across the industries and service sectors we play within. Regards Tom Mombasa Kenya From our own experiences, we recommend using hyphens instead of underscores for domain names. We have noted domains using hyphes tend to rank higher that those with underscores. Strange but we have no explanation currently!

The same goes for internal links within web sites. Try as much as possible to use hyphens and not underscores for internal links. We are in the process of changing all our websites to reflect on this reality. This will be quite a long and tedious excercise (we have over 50 sites) but it must be done to so as to improve on our search engine positions across the industries and service sectors we play within.

Regards
Tom
Mombasa Kenya

]]> By: Dexter Nelson http://dotcomreport.com/domain-names/how-to-select-your-domain-names-dashes-underscores-or-nothing/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 Dexter Nelson Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:43:35 +0000 http://dotcomreport.com/?p=1445#comment-2852 According to Google hyphens (dashes) are treated as separators. In the domain name I have not noticed any difference in positioning on Google or Bing, I have noticed a slightly higher opt-in rate for non-hyphenated domains. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but my clients tend to see the same with split testing. I haven't done any independence tests aside from doing work for clients to say it's fact but it is something to think about. I've also found that Google indexes non-hyphenated domains names faster for some reason which escapes me. I've had clients report the same. According to Google hyphens (dashes) are treated as separators. In the domain name I have not noticed any difference in positioning on Google or Bing, I have noticed a slightly higher opt-in rate for non-hyphenated domains. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but my clients tend to see the same with split testing. I haven't done any independence tests aside from doing work for clients to say it's fact but it is something to think about. I've also found that Google indexes non-hyphenated domains names faster for some reason which escapes me. I've had clients report the same.

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