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Old 09-11-2010, 01:34 AM  
roly
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Originally Posted by Stephen View Post
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.
SE's don't need hyphens in domains to work out the words in a domain. and all things being equal a non hyphenated domain will rank better than a hyphenated one.

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