SEO friendldy Site structure?
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we are in the process or rewriting all the pages on one of our sites and will be changing some urls around. i was just wondering if dashes or underscores are better in the urls SEO wise?
www.site.com/word-word-word/ or
www.site.com/word_word_word/i personally like the underscores better but some colleagues tell me that dashes are better, any tests out there on this issue??
Thanks
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I agree.... love the dashes only. Also a little bit of usability, dashes are easier to type (not that a lot of people are typing long urls with dashes or underscores, but dash is one key press and then underscore is 2 keys)
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Everything you need to know in video form from Matt Cutt's himself
Recap: underscores combine the two words (apple_pie.htm = applepie) and dashes indicate a separator (apple-pie.htm = apple pie). So stick to dashes but it really doesn't affect seo.
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I just corrected it after looking at your link, learnt something new... kudos to you!
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Also, Marko is right. It doesn't matter for SEO, you won't get hit for using underscores vs. hyphens, but it is suggested to use dashes.
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Hello 858,
Here's the short answer: dashes.
For the long answer, check this post out: http://www.seomoz.org/q/hyphens-vs-underscores
Hope this helps!
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You should use dashes...
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