Search engines see hyphens and commas as spaces, which is why they would count that example as the same word next to itself. |
I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat. |
Should your domain be one single word or should the words be separated by hyphens? |
Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks. |
For example, if you like the looks of hyphens separating datestamp, locators and descriptors, then do it that way every time. |
Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition. |