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...
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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...