Hyphenated Domains and Search Term Relevancy
 

Do hyphenated domains have more relevancy in Google, due to seperated keywords.

For example.

We all know bluecars.com is more important for the company "Blue Cars" but if you were designing a page for Search Engines, would "Blue-Cars.com" come up with as much relavancy or more?

Yes. Google likes hyphenated names.

whats your source for that conclusion, is it an opinion, and what is your basis?

I know this because I use tons of hyphenated names and time and time again they do well in Google. I know nothing about SE optimization except the very basics but I do know that my hyphenated names always do better than my non-hyphenated names.

blue-cars.com beats bluecars.com for SE purposes for the search term "blue cars"

Hyphens will help to a point, but not much. Most SE's are phasing out domain name relevance because of overuse of hyphenated domains. Especially ones with more than 2 hyphens.

try this SE forum:

http://searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi

I own Britney-Exposed.com and a bunch others

Britney-Spears-pictures.com

trust me it makes a difference :)

Bookmarked.

Pipe, thanks.