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To all of the Bloggers and SEO experts out there that say;

“Oh never put hyphens in your domain name!”
“Google will penalize you for multiple hyphens in your url.”
“Google will lower your page rank if you use hyphens.”
“Google just might delist you if they think you are trying to game the system.”

So is all of the above true, or just a bunch of Bull Shit?

Do the SEO gurus know what they are talking about, or are they just repeating drivel that they heard about or read some where on another “expert” Blog?

Case in point. I wanted to review how to backup or copy and transfer Outlook Express contacts for a friend that I was going to do this for later today. So naturally I did a Google search of just exactly the following search phrase, with no quotes:

how copy and transfer outlook express messages and contacts

Received Title Bar in Number one place, (That’s Page 1, #1!) that reads,

ABC Outlook Express Backup:outlook express data backup and restore …

and the url is: www.outlook-express-email-backup.com/

The website arrived at is: StartKing Software
They sell a software package to do this backup and transfer for $89.00!
(Remember this is ahead of Microsoft and everyone!)

StartKing has a GPR of 3/10 and an Alexa rank of 4,182,018 when I checked it this morning.

Eighty Nine bucks for something that you can easily do yourself with just a little cut and paste of a few files that Microsoft explains in great detail when you follow the above search a little beyond P1, #1.

How the Hell does a website with only a GPR of 3 and an Alexa in the 4 millions beat out everyone else? HYPHENS people!

So is StartKing gaming the system? You bet! More power to them! This move was genius. Three hyphens in the url that clearly are only there to spoof the munificent Google spider bots! LOL – No, ROFLMAO !

Congratulations StartKing. Don’t listen to all those SEO experts.

www.outlook-express-email-backup.com/ … Indeed!

And no, I have absolutely no connection with this company. The above is a totally true unbiased story.

Rich Hill

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