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Do CaPiTaL lEtTeRs make a difference for Google?

by bertuseng
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I know this is true for names of files in a domain like pdf's or zips, but would there be a difference if you mix up capital letters in a domain name?

What would be best to use when you create a domain name -
(just examples, not my sites)

CuteAnimalPictures dot com
cuteanimalpictures dot com

If you had an abbreviation like IM or PLR in your domain name and don't want to make it lowercase, would it make a difference in search engines or when you enter it in the address bars of different internet browsers?
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  • Profile picture of the author soulravager
    You do know that cuteanimalpictures and CuteAnimalPictures is the exact same domain right ?
    When you register it and if you type it like CUTEANIMALPICTURES.COM when someone visits it his adress bar will say cuteanimalpictures.com.
    No there is no difference neither to visitors nor to Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    nO THey Do NoT

    neither. does, punctuation!

    unless its in context like lenovo 530 vs. lenovo $530

    the first would be seen as a model number and the second a price. but in most cases punctuation is ignored.

    see :

    Basic search help : Google search basics - Web Search Help

    and

    More search help : Google search basics - Web Search Help
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  • Profile picture of the author bertuseng
    But it can be displayed as CuteAnimals dot com in the address bar? I have seen this and was just wondering...
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    not really because all domain names are case-insensitive, always. no matter how you enter a domain in the browser it will always resolve to the lowercase version. there is nothing you can do to force your domain name to change case.

    sites often use intercapping in their company name, links, logos, etc. to enforce the meaning of the domain name and prevent confusion. for example, Experts Exchange's website used to be ExpertsExchange.com, however this resolved in the browser as expertsexchange.com and as you can see it could very easily be viewed as something very different. eventually they just changed to experts-exchange.com but in the past (when the old domain was in use) they would always write it with the mixed case to prevent confusion.

    The rest of your URL (paths and file names), on the other hand, can be case sensitive. Assuming you are on an apache server, you can use mod_rewrite (.htaccess) to force the case however you want in rest of your URL. Just not in the domain

    therefore you could force

    cuteanmials.com/mypath or cuteanmials.com/mypath/myFile.php

    to

    cuteanmials.com/MyPath or cuteanmials.com/MYpath/myFILE.php

    this would be no problem
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