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Should we use & or and in our url's?

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Example:

/Zambia/kasanka-&-bangweulu or

/Zambia/kasanka-and-bangweulu

which is the better url from the search engines point of view?
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jonny512379 last edited by

from a HTML point of view i think you should never use "&", it should always be "&".
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malecce last edited by

Hi

The second, sure.

Ciao

Maurizio

p.s. Normally, this character ( &) is used to concatenate the variables and not the words

Ciao

Maurizio
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