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Originally Posted by Evil Chris
Interesting. So one can expect good SE placement even with hyphens in the domains and yet people seem to think that this isn't valuable down the road?
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One can expect
better placement from the hyphenated version.
Remember, SE's use hyphens as word space designators. The SE "knows" that "keyword1-keyword2.com" is composed of two keywords. When it sees "keyword1keyword2.com" it doesn't "know" where the break is -- although it may be able to "guess" -- but it will rank what it knows much higher than what it guesses.
For example, does "bitemeat.com" = "Bite Meat dot com" OR "Bite Me At dot com"?
You just need to have both versions, ie. Claudia-Marie and ClaudiaMarie > both redirect to the same site, but submit the first version to SE's etc. and just call the site "Claudia Marie" -- anyone trying to type in will get it right.