Internet Marketing Blog » dashes vs underscores http://www.gojdhl.com/seo-blog Internet Marketing Blog Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:21:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hyphens vs Underscores http://www.gojdhl.com/seo-blog/hyphens-vs-underscores http://www.gojdhl.com/seo-blog/hyphens-vs-underscores#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:55:47 +0000 Jared Blake http://www.gojdhl.com/seo-blog/?p=21 In my recent seo research I now realize Google recognizes hyphens as dividers in image names, urls, and body content and ignores underscores. The underscore is not considered a divider (separator) by Google. So use hyphens not underscores in order for the search engines to recognize your keywords. Also keep your urls under 30 characters as it may be problematic for search engines to crawl and index them.

For more info on dashes vs underscores, check out Matt Cutts blog at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

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