Is comma a valid url separator for SEO

Hello everyone, I am using qlweb directory script in one of my directories, I recently notice that the words in the url are separated by comma and not by hyphen.

Is comma a valid url separator? Won’t this have any negative impact on my SEO? Can’t find any direct answer on Google search, any reply is very much appreciated.

Example url: mydomain . com/alternative,health,website

 

Comma is a valid url separator.

 

Valid, don't worry, and not bad for SEO.

 

I guess it is a valid separator, the rules for filenames are different from the rules for URLs I think. That is what has been confusing you.

 

Now, in terms of proper HTML mark-up commas are valid in URLs and pose no issues with rendering web pages on browsers or too crawlers. I never heard of any issues of search engine crawlers like Google or Yahoo! having issues with this type of url delimiter, however it's more common to use hyphens.

 

Thanks a lot for all the response! True it's not really common to see urls being separated by commas, and hyphen is the common one. Now this gives me some additional knowledge I might use in the future.