Time For Some Clarity

[MyNameIsDomain]

I've been reading up on hyphenated domains lately, but it only got me more and more confused.

Lets see what we have:

L-L.com (676)
L-LL.com (17576)
LL-L.com (17576)
L-L-L.com (17576)

L-LLL.com (456976)
LL-LL.com (456976)
LLL-L.com (456976)
L-L-LL.com (456976)
L-LL-L.com (456976)
LL-L-L.com (456976)
L-L-L-L.com (456976)

Ofcourse there's also:

L-LLLL.com (11881376)
LL-LLL.com (11881376)
LLL-LL.com (11881376)
LLLL-L.com (11881376)

L-L-LLL.com (11881376)
L-LL-LL.com (11881376)
L-LLL-L.com (11881376)
LL-L-LL.com (11881376)
LL-LL-L.com (11881376)
LLL-L-L.com (11881376)

LL-L-L-L.com (11881376)
L-LL-L-L.com (11881376)
L-L-LL-L.com (11881376)
L-L-L-LL.com (11881376)

L-L-L-L-L.com (11881376)

181.472.200 possibilities all together. Its kind of depressing.

Apparently search engines do not care which one is searched for, the word is just stuck together. This raises a few questions:

What about SERP?

Is there a difference between search and spider interpretation?

What about L-L-L over L-LL or LL-L?
What about L-L-L-L-L over L-LLLL or LL-LLL or LLL-LL or LLLL-L?

If the word is stuck together anyway, why not a few hyphens less?

There seems to be a misinterpretation of logic going on, or is it just me?

 

[Peter]

Most search engines treat a - as white space. So if a hyphen breaks up a word then it will be detrimental to the SERPS however it can be negligible how much importance a search engine gives to the domain name.

 

[MyNameIsDomain]

Most search engines treat a - as white space. So if a hyphen breaks up a word then it will be detrimental to the SERPS however it can be negligible how much importance a search engine gives to the domain name.

Ok, treated as whitespace and it can damage SERPS, sounds logical together. Why does a search not treat a hyphen as whitespace?

What is your opinion on hyphenated word domains? Is it smarter to put a hyphen between all characters or as few as possible, not talking about hyphens between words.

 

[Peter]

Sorry you have misunderstood me. a hyphen is treated as whitespace by search engines. I personally do not like domains that have for example w-o-r-d.com however word1-word2.com is much better in my opinion.

1 thing I tend to notice when doing searches is the domain name and it can unintentionally affect whether I click on the result or not.

 

[MyNameIsDomain]

Sorry you have misunderstood me. a hyphen is treated as whitespace by search engines. I personally do not like domains that have for example w-o-r-d.com however word1-word2.com is much better in my opinion.

1 thing I tend to notice when doing searches is the domain name and it can unintentionally affect whether I click on the result or not.

ah I see, sorry. I'm strictly talking about hyphens within words, not phrases.

If it has search engine value, it is a good market in my opinion. The thing that alerted me was the fact that if you type 'w-o-r-d' into Google, you will get the same results as for the term 'word'.

hyphenated terms are being registered in great numbers as well as sold. I personally don't understand this completely, hence this thread.

 

[Shasta]

ah I see, sorry. I'm strictly talking about hyphens within words, not phrases.

If it has search engine value, it is a good market in my opinion. The thing that alerted me was the fact that if you type 'w-o-r-d' into Google, you will get the same results as for the term 'word'.

hyphenated terms are being registered in great numbers as well as sold. I personally don't understand this completely, hence this thread.

I a-gree, they are rapidly being registered because m-o-s-t people b-uy, them because they can't afford to spend te-ns of thousands for a one word d-i-c-t-i-o-n-a-r-y .com. They know they can se-ll it at least for registration f-ee or more if they hand registered a gr-eat one. Meanwhile they can also profit from park-ing it since search-engines often are blind to the d-ash.

 

[conda]

Just look at coming-soon.com value ($20,000)

 

[MyNameIsDomain]

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[MyNameIsDomain]

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