Search Engine question

[Drizzy]

My website designer wants the hyphen and I dont. He says it will get more hits from search engines. Anyone explain if he is right or not?

edit: this is for the website title - http://lasvegas.companyname.com vs http://las-vegas.companyname.com

 

[elbosco]

Looks even to me

 

[Drizzy]

heh thats a pretty cool little website... what does that exactly mean though?

 

[troytime]

generally speaking, with target keywords in the domain name or url, its best to seperate with hypens

however, with a city name like las vegas, i doubt there will be a big difference
the major search engines don't just do "one or the other" - they'll pick up las vegas both ways

will your users be returning? if so, their first attempt is almost always without dashes