Hyphens and Underscores, Together at Last
Posted by Michael D Jensen on July 24th, 2007
Big news for small punctuation! SERoundtable.com reports that underscores will now be treated as word separators as hyphens have in the past. This might mean a little ranking change up (maybe we already saw this change in effect, or it could be occurring right now). Most wordpress blogs (and others) already use hyphens in the URL naming structure, but I know many sites use exclusively underscores out of habit (I used to!).
Matt Cutts on dashes vs underscores
The announcement from WordCamp (covered by News.com)
Let me point out that domain names only allow hyphens, not underscores, and I don’t think they will ever implement underscores in domain names.
Some links about using your URLs to enhance your SEO:
Keywords in URL the New Google Search Optimization Winner?
Matt Cutts stating that they do contribute to rankings
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1. John Bennett | August 13th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for the info. I never knew there was even a difference between the two as I used to use underscores between words. Looks like it’s good for some of my old posts that they fixed it.
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