Keyword Rich Domain Names

Do Search Engines Care If Your Domain Contains Hyphens?

This is a pretty hotly debated topic 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 mouthpiece, Google’s algorithm doesn’t penalize for use of hyphens even if there are more than 2 or even 3 in the domain name. There is also no reason to expect that you will rank better for keyword rich domains where the keywords are separated by hyphens. So keyword-rich-domains.com will fair no better with Google than keywordrichdomains.com will.

Why In The World Would Anyone Pay Extra For Premium Domains

There are so many places to buy a domain name these days. And plenty of them offering to sell them for less than the mob. So why in the world would anybody pay the extra money for a Premium Domain name? There are a couple of answers to that question.