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Hi all,
I’m currently working on updating a site, and now I’m a bit puzzled as to how I should name the different webpage… Mostly I’m interested to know if it makes a difference for (mostly) google if I use a “-” in the pagename..
So is there a difference between:
xhttp://mysite.lq/pokerroom.html
and
xhttp://mysite.lq/poker-room.htmlThx for your time..
xhttp://mysite.lq/poker-room.html seems best to me,
google reads 2 important words in the url
instead of one
(that is presuming you want to optimize for poker and room
not for pokerroom)Not completely certain, but I believe it helps to breakup the words with the “-” or “_”. They should be able to see the keywords better if they are separated, rather than having to parse them from one combined word (however, I think they will do that too).
Thx guys….
I’ve used the “-” in the names, also because it’s easier for people to read when (if) it comes up in a search engine..
thx again for the input so far..
don’t use an underscore”_” google doesn’t like those. Use “-“
thx for the advice fonzi, don’t like “_” myself too..
fonzi wrote:don’t use an underscore”_” google doesn’t like those. Use “-“
More myth and rumour – or do you have something to back this up.
I see no difference between “-” or “_” and I don’t think Google does either.Ive read in the conspiracy forums that if you use an underscore google treats it as one word and hyphens as 2. However, http://www.google.com/search?q=casinobonus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
you will notice both casinobonus and casino bonus is highlighted which tells me google can still pick out the keywords eventhough I did not use a hyphen. So bottom line, underscore, hyphen or running the words together, I don’t think it really makes a difference with the exception of it looking a little prettier with a hyphen.Bonusgeek wrote:So bottom line, underscore, hyphen or running the words together, I don’t think it really makes a difference with the exception of it looking a little prettier with a hyphen.I agree … underscore and hyphen are the same … I would not run the words together though.
However as an old programmer I’ve got used to seeing underscore on variable names for years and treating it as a space character … so I prefer underscores.
:hattip:i have learned hyphen is better than underscore…
btw,the highlightning doesnt say anything, meaning its not the way google looks at words, its a different thing
One hyphen underscore/hyphen is fine. If you have more than one and overdo it like super-slots-roulette-monkey-bonus-casino it will be flagged as Spam. If you have a legitimate page for a url like free-slots-bonus then Google will realise sooner or later that it’s not spammy.
Hi all,
not an SEOer, but I find quite ironic that any kind of hyphen / underscore matters because when things started …. if you had redwagons.com …. you were fine. now you’re telling me that red-wagons.com is better?
another ‘rocket-scientist” input that wasn’t needed and was just added because it could be. buttheads!
what started out good enough ….. should stay good enough. MHO.
not an SEOer, but I find quite ironic that any kind of hyphen / underscore matters because when things started …. if you had redwagons.com …. you were fine. now you’re telling me that red-wagons.com is better?
better, No. redwagons.com and red-wagons.com are essentially the same according to google.
Google treats the “-” as a “+ or &”. meaning it adds the 2 words together without a penalty.
If you look around the wen, you’ll see some sites like red–wagons.com doing well. I have no idea how may hyphens you can use before the site is penalized, but I’m sure google has thought of it.
I may have been talking across purposes too.
I was really considering page names within a domain … so I think something like english_football.htm is OK … when I was talking about using underscores.
I’d agree that the domain name itself is probably better being free of all punctutation characters like “-” or “_” … even if just for ease of use and rememberance by casual visitors.
