Does a URL for a site that uses keywords get a better ranking if it
has dashes? i.e. would

consumer-insurance-group.247life.com be better than
consumerinsurancegroup.247life.com?

I seem to recall that using keywords in the url helps the ranking and
I guess it might make sense that they have to be seperated with dashes
for the SE to recognize the keywords ...

On 22 May 2007 08:13:47 -0700, "EMAIL REMOVED"
<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:

>Does a URL for a site that uses keywords get a better ranking if it
>has dashes? i.e. would
>
>consumer-insurance-group.247life.com be better than
>consumerinsurancegroup.247life.com?
>
>I seem to recall that using keywords in the url helps the ranking and
>I guess it might make sense that they have to be seperated with dashes
>for the SE to recognize the keywords ...

I'd buy both and redirect the joinedupversion to the hyphened-version.
People can remember joinedupones better but you'll get more Google
juice from using hyphened-ones, but don't use
too-many-keywords-in-the-url because that'll make it obvious and
anyhoo, it don't make THAT much difference.

BB
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<EMAIL REMOVED> wrote ...
> Does a URL for a site that uses keywords get a better ranking if it
> has dashes? i.e. would
> consumer-insurance-group.247life.com be better than
> consumerinsurancegroup.247life.com?

Marginally, yes; people are much more likely to search for a combination of
individual terms than they are for "consumerinsurancegroup" - but as the
relkevant terms almost certainly appear in the <TITLE>, tags, or page
content, it's a small point.
--

Andrew
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First things first - but not necessarily in that order.

EMAIL REMOVED wrote:
> Does a URL for a site that uses keywords get a better ranking if it
> has dashes? i.e. would
>
> consumer-insurance-group.247life.com be better than
I see what at means just by looking at it.
> consumerinsurancegroup.247life.com?
Something I should read more to understand, don't write this way!!!