Does Google Care If Your Domains Are Hyphenated?
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
This is a pretty hotly debated subject at the moment, so I thought I would share what I have found in my research, as well as through experience… According to Matt Cutts, Google spokesman, Google’s algorithm doesn’t penalize for use of hyphens even if there are more than 2 or even 3 in domain names. There is also no reason to expect that you will rank better for keyword rich domains where the keywords are [spin]hyphenated. So keyword-rich-domains.com will fair no better with Google than key
