Comments on: Preparing your new website for good rankings

By: goodseo

goodseo — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:05:31 +0000

Glad you found it useful Julius! Cheers!

By: Julius Labombar

Julius Labombar — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:03:18 +0000

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By: goodseo

goodseo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:47:13 +0000

Hi Simon, very valid point. You could at any time use a hyphen in your domain name as in http://www.good-seo.co.za for instance. There is however no distinct advantage to implementing this. Google loves a nice keyword or keyword phrase for a domain name and using a hyphen should not be necessary.

I quote a piece from http://www.guruofsearch.com/domain-name-with-or-without-hyphens. This is also a long disputed discussion in the search marketing community. Technically hyphens are recognized as a separator (or space), so they should be used in instances where search engines may not correctly discriminate your keywords. For example, expertsexchange.com – is that experts-exchange or expert-sex-change? In all other instances hyphens are unneccessary, as search engines will correctly parse out the keywords. Not that that matters though, as Google largely ignores the content of your domain name. Therefore you should focus on the branding aspect of your name – ie. stick with one that is short, simple, and easy to remember.

My personal feeling is that i would rather use a hyphen for “people” – so that people can remember a longer domain name easier, “cutting off” keywords in easier to read bite sized words. Don’t agonize over hyphens though, instead create a good website focused on good keywords and great content with clear and easy to read keyword-rich file names.

Cheers, Etienne.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:27:02 +0000

Great point about domain names. Do you think there is an advantage in separating the words in the domain with a hyphen, ‘-’?

By: goodseo

goodseo — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:33:25 +0000

Thanks for the compliment. Much appreciated!

By: mk akan

mk akan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:59:48 +0000

you make this things seem so easy. ..great info thanks

By: goodseo

goodseo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:22 +0000

Thank you very much for that little insight, yes i do agree with you on that. Adding location or niche is also a very important element. Thank you for adding this.

By: Rollins

Rollins — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:29:57 +0000

Really nice article. Permit me to chip this little bit in. It’s also a good idea- if targeting a niche or a particular location- to include that niche or location in your domain name. Google looks out for stuff like that.

Great post

By: Emil

Emil — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:18:33 +0000

Great article.

Interesting to see my own site featuring Then again, who does not love Chardonnay.

The tip about how to see Google’s indexes for my blog is a great help!

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:02:33 +0000

Once again you have provided a very informative and in depth article on SEO for beginners.
It’s really not that difficult, as you so aptly explain.
All Beginners, or even just any one who has their own website should be reading this.
With all the information you have given, it is enough to keep many busy for a long time.