(Entry was posted by Rick Crandall on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/20/2022).

Which domain would be the smartest choice for SEO?

Which domain would be the smartest choice for SEO purposes for a local business not planning to expand out of the state.roofing-company.comroofingcompany.coroofingcompanyms.comdash within the name.co (.com is 5k)state abbreviation added to nameI heard dashes are bad to doI hear some think .co is a typo and people look for .com instead The .com is 5K and parked and no website or business associated with it.Thanks for the insight

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Michael Martinez: It doesn`t matter. I have many domains that use dashes. There are no negative aspects (as far as SEO is concerned) to having a dash in a domain name.People (not algorithms) do seem to prefer runon (dashless) domain names, though.
Rick Crandall: Thank you for the info.