Comments on: Optimizing For Hyphenated Words – What to Expect? http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Hugo http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/comment-page-1/#comment-1082600 Hugo Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:06:09 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/#comment-1082600 The colleague was Dan Cristo, if anyone is interested. The colleague was Dan Cristo, if anyone is interested.

]]> By: Hugo http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/comment-page-1/#comment-1082599 Hugo Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:05:17 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/#comment-1082599 Funny, a colleague of mine over at Zeta was just talking about this on Tuesday. We ran some test, and based on preliminary results, it appears that the main influencing factor on rankings (you guessed it) is the anchor text composition of inbound links. Since in most instances, folks don't hyperlink with hyphens included, most results are the same with or without the hyphen. Can't say that our test is 100% scientifically verifiable, but my advice would be to try and secure some inbound links with hyphens if you want to rank for hypenated terms. Funny, a colleague of mine over at Zeta was just talking about this on Tuesday.

We ran some test, and based on preliminary results, it appears that the main influencing factor on rankings (you guessed it) is the anchor text composition of inbound links.

Since in most instances, folks don’t hyperlink with hyphens included, most results are the same with or without the hyphen.

Can’t say that our test is 100% scientifically verifiable, but my advice would be to try and secure some inbound links with hyphens if you want to rank for hypenated terms.

]]> By: Rich Hill http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/comment-page-1/#comment-1082584 Rich Hill Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:19:17 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/#comment-1082584 I just wrote about an interesting case of a multiple hyphenated domain name that surges to first place. Unbiased report. http://LinkMoney.org I just wrote about an interesting case of a multiple hyphenated domain name that surges to first place.

Unbiased report.

http://LinkMoney.org

]]> By: Gidseo http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/comment-page-1/#comment-1082583 Gidseo Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:00:30 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/#comment-1082583 I've been working on an ecommerce /e-commerce /eCommerce site for a while... at least the budget's bigger than the b&b/ b & b/ b and b I worked on a while ago - the client still doesn't quite believe they got their money's worth by being #1 for bed and breakfast! I’ve been working on an ecommerce /e-commerce /eCommerce site for a while…
at least the budget’s bigger than the b&b/ b & b/ b and b I worked on a while ago – the client still doesn’t quite believe they got their money’s worth by being #1 for bed and breakfast!

]]> By: rhwd2003 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/comment-page-1/#comment-1082581 rhwd2003 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:31:08 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/optimizing-for-hyphenated-words-what-to-expect/7298/#comment-1082581 I run into this sort of dilemma have noticed that my domain I bought has t-shirts in the domain, but I noticed recently that google will not bold the t-shirts in the domain but will bold if someone has tshirts in there domain which doesnt make any sense. Yahoo and MSN both bold t-shirts in the domain... can you do a sample test with this same result of why google wont bold the t-shirts in the domain? I run into this sort of dilemma have noticed that my domain I bought has t-shirts in the domain, but I noticed recently that google will not bold the t-shirts in the domain but will bold if someone has tshirts in there domain which doesnt make any sense. Yahoo and MSN both bold t-shirts in the domain… can you do a sample test with this same result of why google wont bold the t-shirts in the domain?

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