hyphenated .com vs. .org for development

[HomerJ]

hi all,

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before.

i'm considering a certain domain for development and the KeywordKeyword.com is taken (only parked)

What's your opinion on whether to develop on Keyword-Keyword.com, or on KeywordKeyword.org ... ?

does it make a difference from an SEO perspective? if you have any other thoughts i would love to hear. Thanks!

[trader]

hi all,

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before.

i'm considering a certain domain for development and the KeywordKeyword.com is taken (only parked)

What's your opinion on whether to develop on Keyword-Keyword.com, or on KeywordKeyword.org ... ?

does it make a difference from an SEO perspective? if you have any other thoughts i would love to hear. Thanks!

I prefer the .org in your situation. P.S. You may be surprised the org can also get typeins depending on the name.

[HomerJ]

thank you trader. any other reasons for that?

[siteman]

If your website fits well with a .org domain, it is a good option.

However if it is a store (for example), I'll go for the hyphen .com
I have a few hyphenated sites which do as well from seo point of view,
as well as user recognitions.

[HomerJ]

thank you siteman

[exxe]

hyphenated name (from the same reasons as above)

[ecomindia]

.org domains revenue generation in many biz models are far less as to a decent .com models.

.com (hyphenated) i will rate a marginal higher then the .org for commercial business purpose.

COM, NET and ORG tlds/extn are equally good for SEO (except direct traffic - .com leads) point of view.

[exponent]

I have two examples that have worked well. The first is apple-pie.com (really wouldn't work with a .org) and the other is isotope.org (probably the best extension for the topic). It all depends on your market. From what I've gathered, Google doesn't seem to care about the dash. A-B-C has just as many results as ABC.

[HomerJ]

thanks everyone. to add, it will be an affiliate site for a type of online product, if that helps the discussion any


edit: i have chosen the .org. thanks all