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What is the best SEO URL design for keywords with a period?

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tomypro last edited by

Quick question,

Assume my keyword is the German soccer team "1.FC Nuremberg". What is the best URL design to target that keyword?

domainname.com/1fc-nuremberg

or

domainname.com/1-fc-nuremberg

Any thoughts? Does it make - even a tiny - difference?

/Thomas
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tomypro @firstconversion last edited by

As mentioned, the keyword is 1.FC Nuremberg which is naturally what users are typing into Google.
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firstconversion last edited by

Depends how people are typing it in to Google.
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AlanMosley last edited by

I would go for the "domainname.com/1-fc-nuremberg" version

Reason, google can pic words out of a url, but I doubt they can pick out that you want 1 and fc to be seperate.
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