SEO characters
 

Anyone have a good reference for characters for SEO?
- _ : , ; + > for keywords, alts, titles, summaries, etc.
Not just delimiters but general usage too.
Much appreciated :helpme

Bump for biz.

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.

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!

interesting topic

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...

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

and Matt Cutts is a tool...

tip #1: never trust matt cutts! :)

:thumbsup

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..

Thanks for the replies :thumbsup
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!