Comments on: SEO 101: Dashes or Underscores?

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By: Randall

Randall — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:14:52 +0000

So what about the total number of dashes in a URL. I’ve heard that having 5 or more dashes in the URL is bad for SEO. Anyone have any information about this?

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By: Buffalo SEO

Buffalo SEO — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:26:46 +0000

Dashes all the way. Consider underscores to create a visual for people browsing the search results without adding weight to the words in the URL.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:41:32 +0000

Well I’m a fan of dashes… because it’s easier to read, if the underscore is a link (as many URL’s become) then it’s difficult to see what is an underscore, space or link. But I do believe that Google have done a great job with word stemming so it shouldn’t make too much of a difference at this time.

But for so many reasons I’ll agree… USE DASHES!!

By: Dror Zaifman

Dror Zaifman — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:38:36 +0000

I tend to use dashes as well as I noticed that is what Google uses on their blogger service when someone puts up a blog with multiple words.
The resulting link is something like this

name of blog within blogger/year it was published/month it was published/e-commerce-website-101.html
Until I see Google changes I am sticking to what they use in their architecture.