I've heard that one should never buy a domain name with hyphens in it. Hyphens are bad everyone says and won't get rankings or top placements in SEO. Well, a hyphenated domain just kicked me from #1 for a search trm to #2! *hrmpf* The term is a search phrase and I'm certain that is why the dropdown for my site.

However, the site has less backlinks, lower PR etc and so on and therefore I am convinced that the domain name has allowed the site to get to #1.

My question is, I bought a new domain name with all 3 search terms in it (no hyphens!) and am wondering if it is worth it to move my site to this new name? I think not as I rank #1 for 95% of the top search terms. But, I'm just so darn phlummoxed over this.......and it's a hyphenated domain!!!!

Should I move to the new domain name? I've had my site for almost 5 years now and would no doubt loose a lot of backlinks etc.... When I started this site, I had NO idea about SEO and by luck, my site has just been fortunate to rank and place 1,2,3 for major search terms!

Thanks for the advice!
Maggie