freelancerguy
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Hi guys, Should I use a Hyphen or an Underscore in my website URLs? I heard that using Hyphen is better for SEO, is it correct?
Please advice. Thanks.
Please advice. Thanks.
Rajiv,For good SEO practice as per google guidelines URL structure should be clean. As you said you want to use Hypehns and underscores in URL. It is fine with users but not for Google. In other words i must say users can understand the URL in hyphens and underscores but Google crawler Program can not understand the URL and so it leaves the URL.
So make URK structure clean...
Thanks
Rajiv,
Can you point us to any evidence at all that what you say is true? You say that the Google crawler program cannot understand a URL with hyphens or underscores in it. That is not the case. Almost every website you visit has hyphens in the URL. Even this website does. And as you can see, there are many pages from this website indexed and cached in Google. If Google can cache the page, then it has successfully crawled the page. If Google can't crawl your pages, then it won't index most of them. Using hyphens in your URL structure is good practice. It is helpful for both users and for search engines.
Good reference link. Thank you.Can you please read this and you will see the evidence... http://searchengineland.com/9-seo-quirks-you-should-be-aware-of-146465