How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
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How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
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Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
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Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#3It could be that the ranking prior to the swap is continuing to have some lasting effect on the sites after the swap. It would be worth doing the same test on new domains (with new content), to be sure there weren't any side effects from the swap itself.
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#4My first thought was to the age of the domains ... all are the same though, I wonder what order they were crawled in?
I'm sure there are plenty of sites that contain hyphens, that should be favoured (and probably are with all the other signals) over their hyphenless cousins, still seems unfair if there is a penalty though!
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#5This is from 2011, the frictionless owls case study is well known to those who invest in domain names. Hyphens are a bad idea.
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#6I don't know, there are so many factors that go into SEO that assuming, "Oh, it's the hyphen in the domain name" seems a little anecdotal to me.
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#7This makes me feel bad, I have a domain with a hyphen in it.
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#8I'd be curious what the effect is of a non-.com tld vs. a hyphenated name... ex: some-term.com vs term.io for example.
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#9This is from 2011, the frictionless owls case study is well known to those who invest in domain names. Hyphens are a bad idea.
Tell that to experts-exchange.com
Re: How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
#10I don't know, there are so many factors that go into SEO that assuming, "Oh, it's the hyphen in the domain name" seems a little anecdotal to me.
This was my first thought, as well. Also, with how often search engines re-factor their search algorithms, it makes you wonder if an article from 2011 is still even relevant? Anyone else have some insight maybe on that front (relevancy a few years later)?