Re: FN-FORUM: Domain names and SEO

date posted 22nd May 2006 12:40

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:34:19PM -0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
>
> Referencing a post last week from Abhishek:
>
> "2. major search engines favor websites with keywords in their URL; however,
> remember to use them sensibly and not to abuse them. When optimizing a page
> for a key phrase, separate keywords in the URL with a hyphen
> (domain/web-site.html) or an underscore (domain/web_site.html), but do not
> write them as one word. Otherwise, search engines will understand it as a
> single word (even if the search engine result highlights this keyword in
> bold), and your work on URL optimization will be wasted"
>
> So I'd say printer-cartridges.com was the better option. Looks better for
> humans, but more difficult to give out over the phone :o)

Get them both, only advertise printer-cartridges.com but have printercartridges.com
resolve/forward to the same place.

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