Matt Cutts is a 'big wig' at Google [he is in charge of the anti-spam dept], and wrote a blog entry on dashes versus underscores: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/ Here is also another one very interesting: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers/ On Dec 18, 2007 11:50 AM, Tux <cactux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > After some search on this mailing list, I could not find any message > regarding the best choice in the use of dash "-" or underscore "_" as > word seperator in url for search engine indexation. > > Why this question? > Because I made some search, and it seems that it is much better to use > the dash "-" than the underscore "_" to separate words. > So this first example will be better referenced by Google: > http://www.example.com/dokuwiki/discover-the-use-of-the-wiki-tool > Than this one: > http://www.example.com/dokuwiki/discover_the_use_of_the_wiki_tool > > Here are some references regarding this subject: > http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/ > http://orderedlist.com/articles/an-underscore-solution > http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/archive/index.php/t-6460.html > And more with this google search: > http://www.google.com/search?q=seo+dash+underscore > > Personnaly, I prefer underscore to separate words, I find this more readable. > However, I set up my Dokuwiki to dash separator in order to improve my > Google ranking (using the $conf['sepchar'] variable). > > What are your thoughts on this subject? > > Yann > -- > DokuWiki mailing list - more info at > http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist > -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist