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legionofangels · #6 05-19-2008, 03:12 AM

I could make a new thread on this, but I probably only need one answer so I'll just ask here.

Does a -

Help or not effect the url to keyword value of your site.

I ask this in regards to a new site/forum I'm making.

So for example:

appletree.com

or

apple-tree.com

Apple Tree as we know is 2 words, not one, and you'd never search with appletree unless you type incorrectly in searches regularly. You'd search "apple tree" of course.

So does the hyphen help break up the keywords, or are the search engines able to understand the word breaks without there being a break, or is there no effect whatsoever?

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