Web Development on a Stick
Gadgets, Google, and SEO - Dashes vs. underscores
With underscores, Google’s programmer roots are showing. Lots of computer programming languages have stuff like _MAXINT, which may be different than MAXINT. So if you have a url like word1_word2, Google will only return that page if the user searches for word1_word2 (which almost never happens). If you have a url like word1-word2, that page can be returned for the searches word1, word2, and even “word1 word2”. Link >>
Google engineer Matt Cutts throws a post out that swings my head around a bit. I’ve always preferred underscores to dashes in long URL’s as they seem more readable.
However, if using dashes enables better Google searches against the content, then dashes it is.
For all of you Expression Engine users, this is configurable under:
CP Home › Admin › Weblog Administration > Global Weblog Preferences > Word Seperator for URL Titles.
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