http://www.searchengineoptimizationportland.com/blog/2007/06/the-power-of-suggestion-subliminal-marketing-and-the-dot-com/ Digital Strategist • Gary Pool SEO Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.searchengineoptimizationportland.com/blog/2007/06/the-power-of-suggestion-subliminal-marketing-and-the-dot-com/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 Gary Pool S.E.O. » Blog Archive » Top 10 SEO Tips and Tricks | URL Selection Tip 4 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:14:58 +0000 http://www.whiteroseproductions.com/blog/?p=88#comment-2796 [...] You will want a dot com ending if at all possible. Please check out my earlier blog post The Power of Suggestion, Subliminal Marketing, and the dot com. People are so used to using dot com for an URL it is a good idea to use one. Now you ask about dashes in the URL. Dashes are fine for the search engines but are not very user friendly. People are not used to typing dashes into URLs. So you can’t find the URL you want without dashes and with a dot com ending. There is a work around. It’s called the 301 redirect. [...] [...] You will want a dot com ending if at all possible. Please check out my earlier blog post The Power of Suggestion, Subliminal Marketing, and the dot com. People are so used to using dot com for an URL it is a good idea to use one. Now you ask about dashes in the URL. Dashes are fine for the search engines but are not very user friendly. People are not used to typing dashes into URLs. So you can’t find the URL you want without dashes and with a dot com ending. There is a work around. It’s called the 301 redirect. [...]

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