Hyphen (-) or Under Score (_)?

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    Hyphen (-) or Under Score (_) - which is better to use in the urls?

    Do you think that Google or any other search engines differentiates between them?
     
    contactsonia, Apr 9, 2007 IP
  2. britishguy

    britishguy Prominent Member

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    A subject question that will run and run, with many different opinions
     
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    sukantab Well-Known Member

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    According to me hyphens....
     
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    prof_site Peon

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    Hyphen (-) are good for SE's. I would recommend you to use this:D
     
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  5. Indian

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    Hyphen always.
     
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    off course '_' is the better option and also both r different
     
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  8. just-4-teens

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    Hyphen separates the word according to the most SE algos, its the only reason why someone should use hyphen(-)

    Always use Hyphen(-)
     
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  10. mihaidamianov

    mihaidamianov Well-Known Member

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    I use hyphen/dash. - Good slogan as well.
     
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    Janna122003 Banned

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    I use hyphens in my URL and put my keywords for better placement in SERP.
     
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    Just to be different, :) I don't like either and don't buy domains with them I'd rather have a longer or plural xxxxxxxxxxx.com type domain than a xxxx-xxxx.com!

    I believe that hyphen is more standard / SEO friendly (You don't see many _ in domain names).
     
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    login Notable Member

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    _ are treated like a letter so hyphens are best. But bochgoch has a good point.
     
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  14. mihaidamianov

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  15. contactsonia

    contactsonia Active Member

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    BTW domain cannot have underscore.
     
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    Yes, try to avoid hyphens in domains, when you can. It looks more professional. But always use hyphens to separate words in folder and file names.

    SE's appear to read it better. Oh, and humans do too (for whatever that's worth, lol).
     
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    seojig Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    i usually go for hyphen only.it looks good as a keyword separator as well as google consider it.
    i will go with hyphen
     
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    Another vote for hyphens.
     
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    hyphen for me (-), it's better i guess. *my experience said so*
     
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    As this thread is in SEO forum so if we see it from SEO viewpoint then there is not any difference. But you should go with hyphens because SEs throw human on your website and for them hyphens are easier to remember and type on address bar ;)
     
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