Comments on: SEO Saturday: Hyphens in URLs Beat Underscores http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/ Work from home | social media for home based business | Des Walsh | mentor coach Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: baltimore seo http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/comment-page-1/#comment-8553 baltimore seo Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:49:08 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/?p=1192#comment-8553 Links play another important role in your rankings: They help to determine which words you will rank for. If another site links to you using the anchor (link) text, "pumpkin pie recipe", then they're saying that your page is relevant to "pumpkin pie recipe". You have one vote for "pumpkin pie recipe". If you get a lot of links/votes that use "pumpkin pie recipe" then the search engines will think your page is very relevant to that topic, and you'll find yourself ranking well for "pumpkin pie recipe". Links play another important role in your rankings: They help to determine which words you will rank for. If another site links to you using the anchor (link) text, “pumpkin pie recipe”, then they’re saying that your page is relevant to “pumpkin pie recipe”. You have one vote for “pumpkin pie recipe”. If you get a lot of links/votes that use “pumpkin pie recipe” then the search engines will think your page is very relevant to that topic, and you’ll find yourself ranking well for “pumpkin pie recipe”.

]]> By: Des Walsh http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/comment-page-1/#comment-5881 Des Walsh Tue, 19 May 2009 04:22:26 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/?p=1192#comment-5881 Beth I'm mystified. I tested that seomoz tool with the url for this site and that of my deswalsh.com site and got scores of .397 and .394 respectively, with an assessment that the "guess" is "not spammy" but noting that they say 1 is very bad. How can my name or the name of this blog be in any way spammy? Unless in the latter case you could say that "home" or "business" or the conjunction have been abused enough to trigger an alert - but not, surely, an out of context spam "rating". What I thought was particularly odd was that http://www.deswalsh.com got .394 and without the www got a worse rate of .444 - but it's the same site. What am I missing here? How do you find the tool helpful? Beth
I’m mystified. I tested that seomoz tool with the url for this site and that of my deswalsh.com site and got scores of .397 and .394 respectively, with an assessment that the “guess” is “not spammy” but noting that they say 1 is very bad. How can my name or the name of this blog be in any way spammy? Unless in the latter case you could say that “home” or “business” or the conjunction have been abused enough to trigger an alert – but not, surely, an out of context spam “rating”. What I thought was particularly odd was that http://www.deswalsh.com got .394 and without the www got a worse rate of .444 – but it’s the same site. What am I missing here? How do you find the tool helpful?

]]> By: Des Walsh http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/comment-page-1/#comment-5880 Des Walsh Tue, 19 May 2009 04:11:08 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/?p=1192#comment-5880 Jim You may well be right but I have to say I like the "radio" test - as in, a url you can read out easily on a radio program and be confident people can get it down easily: and on that criterion I believe the reliability-of-transcription criterion is easier met with "alloneword" than with hyphens - or "dashes" as many people say, with the obvious risk of an underscore being inserted instead of a hyphen. Jim
You may well be right but I have to say I like the “radio” test – as in, a url you can read out easily on a radio program and be confident people can get it down easily: and on that criterion I believe the reliability-of-transcription criterion is easier met with “alloneword” than with hyphens – or “dashes” as many people say, with the obvious risk of an underscore being inserted instead of a hyphen.

]]> By: Toronto SEO http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/comment-page-1/#comment-5879 Toronto SEO Tue, 19 May 2009 03:45:22 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/?p=1192#comment-5879 Now that you mention it, the hyphenated domain that was ranking #1 in my test has fallen below the first 1000 results on MSN, while the non hyphenated has moved up to number 1. However, I still think that mississauga-real-estate-agent.info is easier to read than mississaugarealestateagent.info.... apparently MSN and Google care little for my opinion. Kinda wondering why MSN would make changes that reduce their differentiation from Google in terms of SERPs. Anyone have a good explanation for THAT? cheers, Jim Now that you mention it, the hyphenated domain that was ranking #1 in my test has fallen below the first 1000 results on MSN, while the non hyphenated has moved up to number 1. However, I still think that mississauga-real-estate-agent.info is easier to read than mississaugarealestateagent.info…. apparently MSN and Google care little for my opinion.

Kinda wondering why MSN would make changes that reduce their differentiation from Google in terms of SERPs. Anyone have a good explanation for THAT?

cheers,

Jim

]]> By: Shawn Davis http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/2009/04/11/seo-saturday-hyphens-in-urls-beat-underscores/comment-page-1/#comment-5876 Shawn Davis Tue, 19 May 2009 00:46:51 +0000 http://www.thinkinghomebusiness.com/?p=1192#comment-5876 Has anyone noticed any MSN search changes over the last few days? I noticed that MSN is putting penalties on "hyphenated" domains now.. Has anyone else notice this? Domains with hypens used to appear in the first page of SERPs, now there not in the first 100!!! Pretty dramatic change.. Has anyone else noticed this recently? Has anyone noticed any MSN search changes over the last few days? I noticed that MSN is putting penalties on “hyphenated” domains now.. Has anyone else notice this? Domains with hypens used to appear in the first page of SERPs, now there not in the first 100!!! Pretty dramatic change..

Has anyone else noticed this recently?

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