Does anyone know what effect double dashes on more than 3 dashes has on files names? like file--name.html or very-long--file-name.html or a domain--name.com. I have a website that has those pages very low in google when I do a site: Please advise. Thanks
hello u can used in this - , -- or more dashes does not effect in search engine ranking google's robot easily cahed the link and best result in seo ranking e.g. http://www.allthingssem.com/double-dashes-in-urls/ must be see this link and easily clarify it
I have many URLs with lots of dashes..actually all my domains include dash and don't think it is a problem. I also read somewhere that google is about to equal dashes to underlines.
Yes it looks ugly & unprofessional.... theres more to building a business online than trying to outsmart a search engine employing only the best Computer Science Graduates & Engineers
Thanks for your post, But you only showed double dashes in domain names. Try and find double dashes in a file name in googles index! I did a search for -- and nothing came up. I also tried "--" I think the dash uses the other dash as a minus?!
I understand that you have lots of urls with dashes... what about file names? fie pretty--long-file--name.html How would that do on the serp?
Either that or nobody wastes their time with such things..... Hope it works out for you but in all honesty seems like spinning wheels...
Maybe spinning wheels but my site does not get indexed well on those pages. Its like google thinks its spam! If anyone ever saw some official statement by google about double dashes in files names please let me know.