Hypenated Domains Problem...

Posted by Nomen Nescio on April 23, 2009, 7:20 am

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Could use some advice here. I have some hypenated domains
that contain my main keywords. I got these domains back in
the day when hypenated keyword domains worked really good.
Hypenated domains no longer work and all the domains doing
good in my serps are non-hypenated keyword domains. What can
and should I do? Should I just dump my hyphenated domains
and start from scratch again? Or is there something I can
do to make the hypenated domains work again? Should I try
down playing the site meta title and remove the keywords
in the site title? Would that help? My thought is that
hypenated domains no longer work because they are looked on
by SE's as being over-optimized and manipulative? Otherwise
I can not see why they would no longer work?

Posted by canadafred on April 23, 2009, 10:21 am

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I would think your SERP troubles probably have little to do with your
domain names and more to do with offering the search engine stagnated,
mediocre content that isn't evolving.

Posted by Big Bill on April 30, 2009, 5:14 pm

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:20:06 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio

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What are they? How many hyphens do they have? I suspect there might be
a bit more that finds small favour with the engines than just the
domains.

BB