SEO characters

**LaoTzu** · 05-11-2008, 11:33 PM

Bump for biz.

**Vick!** · 05-12-2008, 01:37 AM

I am not sure if I understood your question well, but here is a source of information about usage preference between Dashes and Underscore for SEO.

**thaifan99** · 05-12-2008, 01:54 AM

Originally posted by Vick!

I am not sure if I understood your question well, but here is a source of information about usage preference between Dashes and Underscore for SEO.

hes pretty good.

**LaoTzu** · 05-12-2008, 02:41 AM

Originally posted by Vick!

I am not sure if I understood your question well, but here is a source of information about usage preference between Dashes and Underscore
for SEO.

Thanks,
That article was exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for (although I've heard to the contrary that underscores are better than hyphens for URLs recently(hard to prove)). I've also been wondering about other formats like : "porn > black > lesbian" or "black porn: lesbian ebony porn" for things like alt tags, href titles, etc.
Any thoughts on using other special caracters for blending or longtail targeting?

Thanks again!

**en21** · 05-12-2008, 03:20 AM

interesting topic

**poto** · 05-12-2008, 04:37 AM

with semantic search algos being adopted it matters much less these days...

imho, the reason I think some peeps have been saying underscores rank better recently is because the signal to noise ratio is slightly lower with underscores... whereas dashes have been overly abused by every retarded SE spammer and their cousins for years... thus pushing the noise ratio a bit higher for urls with dashes...

Originally posted by Vick!

I am not sure if I understood your question well, but here is a source of information about usage preference between Dashes and Underscore for SEO.

that was from 2005... that's a lifetime ago in search algo changes...

and Matt Cutts is a tool...

**Marshal** · 05-12-2008, 04:51 AM

Originally posted by Vick!

I am not sure if I understood your question well, but here is a source of information about usage preference between Dashes and Underscore for SEO.

tip #1: never trust matt cutts!

**baddog** · 05-12-2008, 08:41 AM

Originally posted by nettrust

tip #1: never trust matt cutts!

**RyuLion** · 05-12-2008, 08:58 AM

I have been using _ between words in my file names, and it was been working fine.
I'll try out - in some to see how well they work..

**LaoTzu** · 05-12-2008, 01:52 PM

Thanks for the replies

Any thoughts on other special characters?
: ; > / - = +
Not just as delimiters but to denote hierarchical keyword structure or importance?
ex. alt="porn / gay midgets" or "porn > gay porn > deepthroat banana" or just "midget porn: gay midgets fucking"

Thanks for keeping the biz thread alive!

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