domain names and google

[Sleep[Walker]]

1 hyphen is all right. 2 - under question. I won't recommend.

i expect there is a limit as 3 or 4 + would be seen as spamming keywords?

No, i think that spamming keywords is something like "teeniest-teens-teening.com".
For example, lets imagine that we have two identical sites greenguysboard.com and green-guy-and-jim.com. And there is no penalties for duplicate content.
I am 100% sure that the first domain name will be ranked higher that the second one. I admit that i have no idea why is happening such thing, but experience in SEO practice proves that.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Sleep[Walker]

For example, lets imagine that we have two identical sites greenguysboard.com and green-guy-and-jim.com. And there is no penalties for duplicate content.
I am 100% sure that the first domain name will be ranked higher that the second one. I admit that i have no idea why is happening such thing, but experience in SEO practice proves that.

From my experience, I would also say that Google seems to rank domains without hyphens higher most of the time for the higher competition kw phrases.

I did a few random searches on google and got these results:

The search query Porn returns only one result in top 20 with a hyphenated domain name.

The search query Sex returns only one result in the top 40 with a hyphenated domain name and it's #40.

The search query Porno Movies returns only two results in top 20 with a hyphenated domain name. Hyphen domain actually holds #1 here.

The search query Big Tits returns NO results in the top 50 with a hyphenated domain name.

The search query Cumshot Vids returned NO results in top 20 with a hyphenated domain name.

The search query Blowjob Porn Movies returned two results in top 20 with domains using a hyphen.

Search query Black Porn Clips returned NO results in top 20 with a hyphenated domain name.

I see a pattern here, but I'm sure there are other examples that show otherwise?