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Comments on Will multiple dashes in a domain name look spammy to search engines and hurt SEO?

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Will multiple dashes in a domain name look spammy to search engines and hurt SEO? Question

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I'm trying to choose between domains with and without multiple dashes:

  • my-awsome-company.example
  • myawesomecompany.example

The dashes make it much more readable to me, but I've heard that search engines don't like domains with multiple dashes because so many have been used by sites that have spammed search engines. Should I avoid using multiple dashes in my domain name because of this even though it might make my domain name less readable?

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Oh wow -- I'd like to know this too, because as a *user* I much prefer the hyphens for parsing. It w... (2 comments)
Oh wow -- I'd like to know this too, because as a *user* I much prefer the hyphens for parsing. It w...
Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Oh wow -- I'd like to know this too, because as a user I much prefer the hyphens for parsing. It wouldn't have occurred to me that search engines would be working against that.

Michael‭ wrote about 1 year ago

The first question when making that decision should be "Does removing the hyphens cause people (or SEO) to mis-parse the word breaks in a way that makes real words that are not at all what you intended?" Notable example: experts-exchange