Hyphen OR Underscore

It soon won't matter; in the past a hyphen was better than an underscore, it seems it will no longer make a difference.

The problem you're experiencing is unrelated to the use of underscores or hyphens.

 

Exactly.
G Bot is getting more intelligent everyday and removing the un-necessary difference between such thing.
But somehow, I still like hyphen over underscore

 

good post..but how bout this www.seo--tips.com

what's with the double dashes ? hmm

 

Same here.

 

The most closely held SEO secret (until now that is) is to use both....i.e. www.mydomain.com/computers_-internet/

and for slightly higher rankings...www.mydomain.com/computers-_internet/

And thus another SEO urban legend is born.


Disclamer: Intended for humor purposes only, do not try at home. Besides, it makes for incredibly ugly urls.

 

good one.

 

I was looking at this underscore thing pretty negatively because of my SEO site, I have just realized that my directory uses them so I am 50/50 about it now.

 

CReed, "And thus another SEO urban legend is born."

 

The thing is - someone will stumble in here, read it and actually implement it.

 

Just remember to heed MC's words when he said Google don't penalize for using hyphens or 'dashes' in an url but they don't speak for other search engines.

 

Ok, I added a disclaimer to the post.

 

Of course when they get top serps and PR7 first time then you eat your words

 

And will you if you don't make the PR you keep saying your predicted to get?

 

lol
Good one ... and then you will be seeing "theories" to get high PR

 

Is there a tally? Has anyone's mind been changed? Don't you own both domains anyway?

 

hyphens all the way.

 

Is this that areiole consulting guy which showed me that cylon systems site.?

 

yes lol

 

you do realise that once you change the structure an urls,

All your internal TBPR , for the changed urls, will vanish