Domain Name Hyphens Are Now the Anti-SEO

Domain Name Blog I read an account from a poster on a marketing forum explaining that hyphens were now being scored against by Google. This, as he stated, applied to recent regs and not established domains. He was jeered by a handful of onlookers, but since when does being popular have anything to do with being right? Knowing Google as you do, wouldn’t this only make perfect sense. Picture it, thousands are registering keyword phrases chunked out with hyphens between every key word - not to develop into a website but as a closet to their true portal or even worse, an advertising ditch. Google says, whoa we need to drastically alter the hyphenated portion of the algorithm and get rid of these one horse sites. All of a sudden, hyphens don’t register.

Really how far fetched is that? Not far fetched at all to me. I had to completely abandon my old domain blog because Google refused to index it. I know SEO. I read up on all the latest thoughts and reports as well as conducting my own SEO research. I could not figure out why not one single blog entry ever got indexed. I now have my answer.

Keep these things in mind. I’m not talking about subdomains. I’m not referencing about established domains. I think the older hyphens stayed true, but the recent regs got hammered.

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