By UserFriendly on

I'm creating my own urls as I go along. I just have a quick question:

Is example.com/section-one/page-about-stuff better than example.com/sectionone/pageaboutstuff with regards to search engine optimisation?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts on this.

Richard

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adrian’s picture

adrian commented

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The future is so Bryght, I have to wear shades.

Timotheos’s picture

Timotheos commented

Dashes and underscores are treated like spaces so it helps the search engines break down your url into key words. Of course, the more fluff words you can get out of there like 'section' then the better off you'll be.

UserFriendly’s picture

UserFriendly commented

I've gone with your advice and got pretty good results. Thanks.

Richard

greggles’s picture

greggles
he/him
Primary language English
Location Denver, Colorado, USA
commented

I think this depends on the search engine and that Google treats underlines as "joiners" and hyphens/dashes as word separators.

Since more search engines recognize hyphens as separators, I would use hyphens between words.

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Knaddison Family

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Morris Animal Foundation

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katriona commented

I would like to use hypens as space, do you know how can you set the space between words to be a hyphen not underscore? my site www.informedwomen.co.uk is set up to automatically creat url from the title but uses an underscore instead of a hypen?

Thanks

Katriona

varunvnair’s picture

varunvnair commented

Read this post titled Dashes vs. underscores on Google engineer Matt Cutt's blog.

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