Do search engines really care about whether the URL has a _ or - ?. Some SEO experts say they do, is it really so?
pancgom29p 0 Newbie Poster
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
I *think* google counts _ as meaning nothing and so the string e.g home_page becomes homepage. - generally is treated as meaing NOT, but i think this isnt a problem.
So, i think "-" is better if the url uses multiple distinct words.
but im no SEO expert
blackpooldanny 0 Junior Poster in Training
Sometimes having symbols in the URL doesnt matter as its readable but having symbols like ?!%& doesnt help with getting indexed
stephen186 4 Junior Poster in Training
I think Jbennet has explained it exactly why SEO experts recommend _ or -
Robdale 39 Practically a Master Poster
yea... jbennet has covered the major point. Nothing more to say. the less you will have the symbols, the better results you will get.
mrandrei 0 Junior Poster in Training
Google sees words separated by an underscore as one word.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
yep thats what i thought too
Hsekhar 0 Light Poster
Google itself should clear the doubt here http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329
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