Do these affects my ranking

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by gr8webseller, Apr 9, 2009.

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    gr8webseller, Apr 9, 2009 IP
  2. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    looks like you are using spaces in between words in your filename which is not a good idea. if the words need to be seperated in a filename, you can use dash or underscore which will make the URL more search engine freindly
     
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    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    As always, the "sulton" has given you great advice. Using spaces in filenames is a bad idea. I see this a lot and have often wondered if it is because people are building sites using Microsoft Word/Save As HTML or Frontpage? I would recommend using hyphen as sultonofseo said...

    Google recommends hyphens even over underscore as a word separator (see 2nd paragraph at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76329). I'm guessing since they recommend hyphens over underscore there are likely still some parts of their systems where underscore is not treated as a word separator.
     
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  4. jaakko

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    I think is bad idea, only dash. Rank is good.
    You get traffic from Search Engine ?
     
    jaakko, Apr 9, 2009 IP
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    it won't have a noticeable impact in your rankings but it's a good idea to use - or _ instead.
     
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    themedseoservices Guest

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    hi,
    currently you are having How to lose we...dding day.html change the html page file name to How_to_lose_weight.html dont extend the url much which is not google url friendly try to put only keywords.
     
    themedseoservices, Apr 9, 2009 IP
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    It won't have much impact on your rankibngs as TheRazor5 said.
    However, it will look a lot more professional with dashes or underscores. I mean, seeing all those %20(s) can sometimes be scary from visitor's perspective, simply because they don't understand that these are representing spaces.
     
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  8. gr8webseller

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    thanks for all, i will change it.
     
    gr8webseller, Apr 9, 2009 IP