Webpage names – Dashes or underscores?

25th August 2005

What’s better for getting found in the Search Engines, dashes or underscores?

This – http://www.domainname.com/page_name_here.html
or this – http://www.domainname.com/page-name-here.html ?

Well, now we know…the answer is….Dashes

http://www.domainname.com/page-name-here.html

why is that? well, read it for yourself at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

Matt Cutts is a lead engineer at Google, and he writes facts, not speculation. That’s why I’ll be reading it every day, from here on out.

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2. New Search Operator Command in MSN
3. Finally, XML Sitemap Standardization
4. Copied Your Website – What Can You Do?
5. How to Make a Crappy CMS