Is dash problem for seo?
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My web site http://www.green-lotus-trekking.com is this problem for google search engine optimization? Some little percentage problem or totally I am in Confusion?
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Thanks for your quick and informative sugestions.
yes, satisfy with you, but i used simple image slider i think the site is not too heavy for loading. And other Green lotus trekking is company name so i wanna used only proper title, i mean only search for everest base camp trek for this url http://www.green-lotus-trekking.com/everest-base-camp-trek/ but google doesnt cached proper meta description it catched non meta description can you give me any ideas about this?
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No, in some cases a dash would REALLY help a domain rank
Dashes would REALLY help!
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I agree with Paints, Homepage is very very very slow.
I also don't think the title of the homepage is that appealing, so I would definitely rewrite that one.
As for the Dash problem. I have several websites all with dashes all without ranking problems. One of those websites currently drives like 100.000 visites each month so the dash is definitely not the problem.
Then some other point for your site that might be useful to you:
- I think you should kill the widget on the left side that appears halfway of the page and substitute that one with a normal share widget on the bottom of your homepage or not at all.
- Have you optimized the size of the images? Some take like forever to load or don;t focus that well.
- The titles for the sub pages are a bit stiff and short (Everest Base Camp Trek). Personally I like the way Danny Dover described in his book, Search Engine Optimization Secrets, so I would make it more like: Everest Base Camp Trek | Green Lotus Trekking (off course you should take in consideration the length of the title).
- The images slider/gallery doesn't work properly in my browser (safari), once I click an image it doesn't work at all.
I think these are your main problems. If you could speed up everything (page load speed on the Tibet Tours page is 5.976 seconds) and optimize your titles, images and the rest of the site, you could make sure that the dashes in the url don't have any negative effect at all.
Hope this helps some. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me for them.
Regards
Jarno Nijzing -
really? I ran some tests maybe 2 years ago - the result was the oppisite (in germany only) the site with dashes got more clicks than the site without.
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what should be the problem? The dash (-) is no problem
to answer the title of the question.
But you have to do a bit work onpag.For example the nepal-trekking site has the title Nepal Tours but a heading with Nepal Trekking and the homepage has the title _Trekking In Nepal | Nepal Trekking | Hiking In Nepal _not sweet. And the homepage (on my computer) is very slow.
I guess there are some more little problems - but the titles are confusing for me - so I think google would be confused to
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Hi Agsin,
You can make rank the domains with multiple dashes. But usually domains with more dash looks spammy to users. So they may not click on your website even if it ranked on page 1
Riyas
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