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Search Engines and Marketing => Search Engine Optimization SEO => Topic started by: seoconsult on July 01, 2013, 05:31:22 AM

Title: use of hypens and underscores
Post by: seoconsult on July 01, 2013, 05:31:22 AM
hi friends do you know  in hyphen and underscore  which is the best one in on-page
Title: Re: use of hypens and underscores
Post by: raveenasen on July 01, 2013, 07:31:01 AM
You should use a hyphen for your SEO URLs. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, but does not treat an underscore that way. SEO URLs should use hyphens to separate words. Do not use underscores, do not try to use spaces, and do not smash all the words together into one bigword.
Title: Re: use of hypens and underscores
Post by: Saurabh Saxena on July 01, 2013, 07:37:19 AM
Obviously you should use hyphens not underscores in your site URLs. Because Google hates all the words in url which is use by pressing shift keys like _,&,%.....