Hiya,
This may be a very naive questions but will a search engine better distinguish a domain name made up of key words with spacing rather than without, for example, is it better to have www.top-hats.com rather than www.tophats.com?
Hope that makes sense 
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If top and hats are your keywords, then yes, separating them by a hyphen will improve your keyword score. You will likely reduce your “natural” results from people typing whateveriwant.com into a browser, and your score for understanding the URL when it’s read aloud will probably go down, too (that last part is a guess).
Walter
On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Nigel Gilbert wrote:
Hiya,
This may be a very naive questions but will a search engine better distinguish a domain name made up of key words with spacing rather than without, for example, is it better to have www.top-hats.com rather than www.tophats.com?
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Great answer and I concur
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On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
If top and hats are your keywords, then yes, separating them by a hyphen will improve your keyword score. You will likely reduce your “natural” results from people typing whateveriwant.com into a browser, and your score for understanding the URL when it’s read aloud will probably go down, too (that last part is a guess).
Walter
On Mar 12, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Nigel Gilbert wrote:
Hiya,
This may be a very naive questions but will a search engine better distinguish a domain name made up of key words with spacing rather than without, for example, is it better to have www.top-hats.com rather than www.tophats.com?
Hope that makes sense
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Thanks Walter, that’s pretty much what I thought would be the case.
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