Which One Would You Buy?

[adinfinite]

would you rather buy a hyphenated name with a high exact search number or a un-hyphenated name with average exact search numbers? For example: super-store.com vs supermart.com. The fact is that the more popular keywords are in the hyphenated name but I have been made to understand that a hyphen essesntially kills the name because it adds one more character to the string and makes it more difficult to remember. Which one would you buy? what are the trade offs?

 

[skulldude]

Between super-store.com and supermart.com, I probably wouldn't differentiate much. The hyphen brings it down to supermart.com's level in my opinion.

But it really depends on what is being compared. If I had to choose between diamond-rings.com or superstore.com, I would take diamond-rings.com any day over superstore.com

 

[adinfinite]

ok. makes sense i guess. any other suggestions for anyone else?

 

[rtnylw]

what are the exact monthly searches for each?

 

[biggie]

would you rather buy a hyphenated name with a high exact search number or a un-hyphenated name with average exact search numbers? For example: super-store.com vs supermart.com. The fact is that the more popular keywords are in the hyphenated name but I have been made to understand that a hyphen essesntially kills the name because it adds one more character to the string and makes it more difficult to remember. Which one would you buy? what are the trade offs?

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Hi

i bolded a partial statement above


who made you understand this about hyphens?



each domain should stand on it's own merit

so in your examples, super-store vs supermart, i'd take supermart

but like 'skulldude' said, "i'd rather have diamond-rings"

but i'd take both supermart and diamond-rings

i've regged "two word hyphen domains" that were "typos" of "two word hyphen domains"....and many of them get traffic too

to go further, i've regged some "three word domains" that have "two hyphens" in them, which also get some type-ins

so it always depends on the domain name for each example that you could imagine

imo...