SEO ExperimentsIs there a search engine optimisation related stuff that baffles you? Why not clear it up once and for all with and empirical evidence? Conduct your own SEO experiments here.
I do wonder if Google is starting to see hyphenated ones a spam. Just a couple of glitches recently suggested this. I hope I am wrong. 325 domains with hyphen, 5 without!!!
I have tested this before in the echolist directory seo contest I had both echolistdirectory.com the winning domain and echolist-directory.com
I created simular but different sites and add equal links and then had to add even more to the dash domain to get a good listing
after add 3 times the links to the dash domain the undashed was #1 AND DASHED WAS 15 google does not like dashes
you can also check searching "india tour" the domain with - (i.e india-tour)appears above the domain without - (i.e indiatour). It is just a matter of Expert SEO