I want to register a domain name.

Let's say I want to register: goodapples.com.

My website is about apples.
I've added the word good to help make it memorable - no other reason.

My thinking, anyone searching for apples won't come accross goodapples.com (going on JUST the domain name and not for example the content which obviously will matter a great deal!).

Should I register good-apples.com instead?

I'm a complete newbie to SEO. (Wanting to learn and become an expert.)
But... I think I'm right in saying that the search engines will treat '-' characters like a space: so, anyone searching for apples will come accross good-apples.com (again, assuming the domain name as being the only criteria to search on).

Does that make any sense?

Or is the answer: register both domains?
(If I did: is it a bad thing to have one domain simply point to the other?)

Thanks.


OM

goodapples.com is much better than to the other domain with dash.

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thanks for the reply.
can you explain why?
good-apples.com - yuk, i dont like!
but: for searching on key words purposes, *just* going on the name makes sense... since search engines treat the '-' character as a space - and thereby apples would tunr up more easily than the first alternative.

is there any sense in my thinking?
or am i losing the plot...?

It no sense to search engine that your keyword must separated by dash.

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I think goodapples.com is better than good-apples.com too. Good luck

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Yes I agree. goodapples would be better domain. I would buy the other domain good with the dash to avoid someone else buying it.

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Yes it does make sense... or at least used to. Hypenated domains used to be recognized as separate words and the non-hyphenated and underscored didn't. The old standard was the allinurl operator for a common term such as real estate.

If you do the same search now, however, you will find urls with realestate as one word which would indicate that there's little/no benefit.

In any event, it's almost always best to go with the domain that's most brandable. A domain that will be remembered and referenced easily by your visitors and in that regard goodapples is far superior to good-apples.

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what a useful information by all the members.

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Even, if you really like hyphenated domain, then have it. And then you can make a simple redirect to non-hyphenated domain goodapples.

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