Domain / SE Questions

urb · 2003-09-25, 04:41 AM

Hypenated domain names have always been regarded as good search engine fodder. The "-" is somewhat invisible to Googlebot.

Do a search for an underscore and then a hypen and you will see that the hypen shows no results and the underscore shows millions.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...8&oe=UTF-8&q=-

Problem is that spammers buy up a lot of hypenated domains and place no real content on them so their Google life expectancy is limited.

big-sex-porn.com isolates the keywords better than bigsexporn.com which could be confused with "bigs exporn".

Question 2 is a can of worms.

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2003-09-25, 04:41 AM	#2
urb All the way from Room 101 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,557	Hypenated domain names have always been regarded as good search engine fodder. The "-" is somewhat invisible to Googlebot. Do a search for an underscore and then a hypen and you will see that the hypen shows no results and the underscore shows millions. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...8&oe=UTF-8&q=- Problem is that spammers buy up a lot of hypenated domains and place no real content on them so their Google life expectancy is limited. big-sex-porn.com isolates the keywords better than bigsexporn.com which could be confused with "bigs exporn". Question 2 is a can of worms.