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[TcM]

What is the best option for SEO? Use a dash or an underscore?

I'm using WordPress and it uses dash, and as I can see vbSEO too uses dashes, but is this the best way for SEO?

Thanks.

[CygnetGames]

Yes, dashes are the way to go.

If you have a url: www.my-website.com/some-page.html
Then google will pick out the keywords from this: my, website, some, page.

But if you do the same thing with underscores: www.my_website.com/some_page.html
Then google will only pick out: my_website, some_page

I have no idea why google does this, but it does. You can test it for yourself - google for: test_this_out and the google for: test-this-out. With dashes, you find pages containing all the words, but with underscores you only get pages containing the words separated by underscores.

[TcM]

Yes, you are right.. never noticed that actually, thank you very much for helping me.... interesting and strange too!