WP DomainName.de in permalink

[cwltd]

Hey.

On my WordPress page I did reviews about other websites. My page is in German language.

My keywords and title are: "DomainName.de Erfahrungen".

Wordpress changes the dot "." to an dash "-" and I cannot change it. Yoast SEO told me, my keywords are not (complete) in my permalink.

Google use an "-" to separate to words (https://moz.com/community/q/how-is-a-dash-or-handled-by-google-search).

Wordpress changes a "." to a "-": domain-de

Invasion forum just removes the ".": domainde

Trustpilot has the full domainame in permalink: domain.de

So what's is the best strategy for the best SEO results?

[cwltd]

Hello Darin.

Maybe I did not express myself correctly.

I talk about the dot (".") in permalinks (slug) from Wordpress. When I enter "Domain.de Erfahrungen" as post title, Wordpress rewrite the permalink as "myproject.de/artikel/domain-de-erfahrungen". WP replace the dot with an dash.

I found already an solution to change that, so that the permalink now looks like "myproject.de/artikel/domain.de-erfahrungen".

So, I want to know what's the best strategy for Google.

Wordpress has - by design - following permalink: /domain-de-erfahrungen/

Invasion forum just delete the dot: /domainde-erfahrungen/

Trustpilot has following permalinks: /review/www.domain.de/

As my keyword is "domain.de Erfahrungen" - I want to know, what permalink should I use to get best results for Google.

[DarinPirkey]

To fix problem: Have you tried adding a www or http(s) before the domain? (aka the full url)

As far as SEO goes, my initial thought as just having the name without the .de would suffice to get it indexed and moving.  Obviously content on the page will matter more here.  One thing you can do is think about using the brand vs the domain. If I want to review Amazon.com I could simple say "Amazon Review" or "Amazon's Website Review" etc.  But I would need to look at keyword research and some intent behind the content to see what's best in your case.  I tend to like to write longer more informative titles unless it's for social media.  Instead of "Amazon Review" I would probably go with something like "My Awkward Experience on Amazon's Website" or something along those lines.  Not a great title but if I saw that in the SERPs I might take a peak.

Though the title is important, your content and your overall review is going to matter for getting it up in the rankings.  The title will bring them in for sure, but you need to be found first.  Let me know if adding the full url helped.  If not we can try a few other things.