Which domain do I promote?

[wistow]

Hi

I own WebmasterTalk.co.uk and Webmaster-Talk.co.uk. I will soon be developing the domains as a webmaster discussion forum, but was wondering which of the domains should I use as my 'primary' domain, e.g. The one that I submit to search engines, and advertise in general. Should I use the hyphenated version as it will be read as two seperate words by major search engines, or use the non-hyphenated version?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Craig

 

[Moondancer]

The search engines don't care about hyphens. that's a user consideration, especially when building traffic. People will forget there's supposed to be a hyphen there and it's easier to spell without remembering the hyphen... so... to answer your question briefly... use the non-hyphenated name for promotion.

 

[eSology]

non-hyphenated is almost always better IMHO.

 

[wistow]

The search engines don't care about hyphens.

Google does. Since I started using hyphens in my filenames on another one of my sites, my search engine results have increased dramatically, with numerous 1st page results.

Thanks for your replies both of you, greatly appreciated.

Craig