Opinion on .com's that use a -

[Unknownstyle]

What is your opinion on starting a site or buying a name with a hyphen in it? I'm just curious if i'm just using it as a business card basically and then using it to put it on search engines, etc. Would it be negative to use hyphen (-) ?

 

[WingFat]

I think the hypen is generally considered a negative thing. Personally I wouldn't use a hyphenated domain name for my primary address unless it was a really killer name (like web-design.com or something). I do own a couple of hyphenated domain names, but only because I also own the non-hypenated versions.

 

[superprogrammer]

Another example is county names like
www.south-africa.info

 

[ftech]

I think the hypen is generally considered a negative thing.

Ofcourse, it's a mathematical operator - (minus), and it is used as symbol for negative nubers.... ...no wonder everyone consider it negative..:lol:


Seriously, sometimes it is not such a bad thing, it makes name more readable and keywords in it more obvious, this has a point when keywords are good, ofcourse.

 

[mole]

From a branding point of view, it sucks.

From an old school SEO point of view, it rocks.

 

[dantheman123]

i think those types of sites get a normal amount of traffic in search engines however while trying to type it into a searchbar many people forget the -

 

[spikedo]

There's nothing terribly wrong with hyphenated domains. Mole is right that the branding gets mucked. But that shouldn't discourage you from buying/developing them.

 

[souleditor]

dont really know what that is men but good luck

 

[x3knet]

A hyphen looks like a minus sign... thus foreshadowing that a hyphen could be a negative... muahaha

 

[Redleg]

From an old school SEO point of view, it rocks.

10,000 - 14,000 visitors pr day to one of my hyphenated sites certainly agrees to that one..

 

[cera]

Has been discussed before

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=64695&highlight=hyphen

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=59413&highlight=hyphen

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=56591&highlight=hyphen

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=56305&highlight=hyphen

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=45368&highlight=hyphen