Domain name Vs PR question...

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Hey guys...I am having some hard time to decide about something...I am opening a new site about apartments for rent in lisbon.I want to make it prepared to google crawl in the future. I am thinking about how the domain name is going to effect my google ranking.I know there are more things to take care of them when I am thinking on a good position, but lets focus on this one:I want to attract those people who are looking for: 'rent short term apartments lisbon'. - Or it's better to use: rentinglisbonapartments.com or renting-lisbon-apartments.com is the '-' help google to relize there are few words inside? how does this make the different to the ranking...?Thanks in advance for your help... Cdx.Hi,Google is much to smart to need a "-" to help it identify words.Using your keyphrase in your domain does assist a small amount.The most important factors are correct keyword content on the page and the use of "Anchored" text links, not the domain itself.ClareI have absolutely no idea about any of that but, you could try asking in the google forum. I hear Vetofunk is the man when it comes to these things.ops... I didn't know about the google forum. Now I know...Thanks.- By the way, how can I delete this massage? I don't want to cross-posting.Cdx.renting-lisbon-apartments.com would be easier for google, but it might be harder for your visitors to remember to put those dashed in when they want to visit. I don't think the name matters as much anyway when you are talking pagerank. Page rank has alot more to do with who is linking to your website.No problem . That wasn't meant as an admonishment. I'm not a moderator I just thought you might find some useful info. there.As far as cross-posting goes, I would just continue the conversation here. A mod will eventually move this to the appropriate forum.Took care of merging the two topics. No need to post multiple times. If we see the post is in the wrong place we'll move it.It use to be that putting a dash in between file/page names was needed, but I am seeing different now. As much as I hate seeing it, using the actual keyword/keyword phrase in your domain does help. I do not really like the way it looks from a visitor's standpoint, but it does help in the rankings. I would do some research on your keyword phrases to see if they are very competitve. Because if they are not, you should be ok just optimizing your pages well and getting plenty of related inbound links. Here is an example that Google reads with no dashes:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... rs&spell=1vetofunk wrote:yeah nice example. I read something like that before on ozzu.also, Is tute_help the same as tute-help to the spiders?Here is a great article on the matter:http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreport ... dURLs.htmlThanks for the article. This is good because you don't need to put those hypens there anymore.I've noticed lately that pages on my site that include the keyword in them have a much easier time getting ranked well. Initially i was just doing it to help me remember what each page was optimized for but now I'm seeing better results.There is a small advantage to having your keywords in your URL but its a trade off vs a catchy name.ClareThe other advantage about having "-" in your domain name is that if someone links to you with:1) Go visit this-is-your-site.com2) Go visit thisisyoursite.comIn the case of (1), your domain maps to keywords in the anchor text, whereas in (2) their anchor text won't help you with your keywords.