What is better for domain name to be SEO more responsive ? Let say I am planning run website about ultimate fight . There is taken domain fight, and they have subsection ultimate
( www.fight.com/ultimate) .
If I take domain www.fightultimate.com is it stronger then mentioend website? Will I be better ranged ?
Possibly, but by adding a hyphen it would be seen (by SEs) as a space, breaking the two words and being more meaningful and easy to read.
www.fight-ultimate.com
But in reality, the domain name is a minor factor, it’s the content that’s most important. But having a meaningful and memorable domain name certainly doesn’t hurt.
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I don’t agree. Don’t use hyphen to your domain, unless you do it for only specific people. who’s gonna watch it. If you do your website globally, then use it without hyphen to be simpler to type and remember. All the best.
Sorry, but what do you mean? You can’t have one domain name for some people and another for other people. I’m sure that’s not what you meant, but that’s the way it reads.
I don’t mean to make two same domains for diffrent people. I mean make one without a hyphen, Is it clear now?
The OP was specifically asking about what’s best for SEO. Though as they say “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, translating to what’s best for human visitors is generally best for SEO too.
But when words are bunched together into one, the resulting string may not be an actual word. Spiders may be able to detect words with such a string, but there may be some ambiguity to what words exist, or where one starts and another begins. The classic example being www.expertsexchange.com
Google has said it does see hyphens as spaces, so in breaking the words you are clearly defining the two keywords that can be found in a dictionary.
From a human point of view, I think it reads easier. Though I think it could get awkward with a greater number of words.
But as already stated, this is a minor factor, Google is far more interested in the keywords within your content, not your domain name, so I would not lose any sleep over it or spend too much time deliberating over it. Use the name you think looks best and is more memorable and easy to read.
If you do want to spend more time on this and hear more opinions, it has been discussed before with pros and cons for both sides.
That may be advantageous in avoiding confusion, where there is more than one possible way to break a string into words.
I use a whois tool which displays domains broken into words as it sees them, and the results are not always correct. (Google and other search engines may be better at this - or they may not.) For example, this domain (not mine) appears as ISlayInfo.com - three words which suggests it’s a nasty site for homicidal people, whereas it’s actually two words, and is a (mainly tourist) site with information about the island of Islay.
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www.fightultimate.com looks good. You may try inserting a hypen but not mandatory. But you should also consider branded names like nike, puma etc. They could have taken domain names like running-shoes.com etc . A brand name will get you noticed and help you in branding.
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