Double--hypens

[ratboy]

It's got that bad has it that i'm looking at double--hypens.

Anyone with any knowledge on their effect in SEO? Good or indifferent. My gut feeling tells me nothing, but i shouldn't think it matters does it. (I'm not selling these on, and they won't be typed in)

Fanks

 

[BFTUK]

Not ever really considered using them of the effect they might have.

It'll be interesting to see how they work for you.

First instinct for me a searcher coming across big--keyword.com would be SPAM.

I suspect the search engines may have filters that you'd trigger using a domain like this otherwise we'd see hundreds of high--paying--keywords.com splashed across the web.

Let us know an example when they are live so we can monitor the results!

 

[ratboy]

I suspect the search engines may have filters that you'd trigger using a domain like this otherwise we'd see hundreds of high--paying--keywords.com splashed across the web.

There are more than I'd first thought that have been registered, fancy a double hyphen .org.uk anyone?

 

[mojoco]

It's got that bad has it that i'm looking at double--hypens.

Anyone with any knowledge on their effect in SEO? Good or indifferent. My gut feeling tells me nothing, but i shouldn't think it matters does it. (I'm not selling these on, and they won't be typed in)

Fanks

I thought about this some time ago.

From what I noticed if you do a search on google using

keyword----keyword

it returns results for

keyword-keyword.

I never saw anything with more than one hyphen on the front page.


Mo.

 

[BFTUK]

There are more than I'd first thought that have been registered, fancy a double hyphen .org.uk anyone?

Have you got some examples? Then we can look and find some that are or are not ranking....

 

[IanTurner]

Generally been used for scraper spam

Seen them ranking for some long tail stuff, but never on anything vaguely competitive.

if your buying for developing a short punchy made up word + keywordkeyword would be better.

e.g. zapfastloans.com, winzcasinocompare.com

 

[golddiggerguy]

I've been testing one with a double hyphen for a few months but it is in a market that is really heated anyway so it's going to be a up hill struggle. And it's a .eu domain too.

But will keep you posted. :???:

 

[Pred]

I thought about this some time ago.

From what I noticed if you do a search on google using

keyword----keyword

it returns results for

keyword-keyword.

I never saw anything with more than one hyphen on the front page.


Mo.

You cant have more than -- in a row. so, keyword--keyword

thats more than enough lol

search engines dont recognize the hyphen so i guess 2 is same as one, or none.

little bit of trivia, every L--L, N--N, L--N, N--L is gone . (.com)

never searched words etc.
what use would you reg a keyword--keyword?
experiment?

 

[lex007]

I regged quite a few -- about three years ago.......... rubbish!!

tbh mybe poker--poker.......... or sex--sex.... etc... could be ok.but they are registered?

double hyphens would surely be good for seo and "add-on" sites/satellite sites e.g

Hub: ManchesterBuilding. com

and have manchester-building . com
and mancheter--building .com etc.........


???

 

[robind]

One problem i think is that it would be more difficult to acquire a half decent link to a domain with two hyphens, and hence they are bad for SEO

 

[Alien]

Interesting thread, useful comments.

Only double --.uk DN I have is: e--mail.co.uk which is just parked at the mo.