What do you think about domains with a - in them



Half the people will say "No problem" and the other half will tell you not to do it. I do it all the time and have never had any problems. Those that argue that your domain name should be easy to remember are full of beans. People don't need to remember domain names, that is shy they invented bookmarks.
 
are you asking for seo reasons or branding reasons? I always think of when people ask me "oh, what websites do you own?" and I have to say "I as in me, hyphen or dash, am, another hyphen or dash, faggot with a P-H so that's p-h-a-g-g-o-t dot com" if you have a domain that's easy like "blah dot com" then you don't have the same problem. I'm not saying I get asked so much what websites I own that I chose my domains based on this, but I am saying that if it's hard for me to tell someone the domain I own then I know it's even harder for them to tell their friends where they read/bought/found true love on your site.

As for SEO, google sees a hyphen the same as they see a space. So face-book.com would be face book. which is not the same as facebook but it's a lot closer than thismyfacebookdomain.com. The only other thing to consider is a domain with hyphen is not considered an EMD (exact match domain).
 
Well, it depends on how many hyphens you pan to put in there. One is okay if you cannot do without.
Whist many might disagree .com is still viewed as the most valuable and if you can find a .com and have 1 hyphen in it you should be fine.
 
i have some domains with - and got good rank for some kw.. for me nothing problem to add - :)
 
They used to be a usability nightmare, but the majority just type stuff in G, even for really short a memorable domains.

It makes no difference, just avoid having more than 2 "-" in a domain as it will start to look spammy.
 
They used to be a usability nightmare, but the majority just type stuff in G, even for really short a memorable domains.

It makes no difference, just avoid having more than 2 "-" in a domain as it will start to look spammy.

I just bought one P-L-R[dot]... just to see what happens, got a store going on it in couple weeks:stonedsmilie:

Does more than 2 "-" hurt the search results? or just the look?