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lemon
08-24-2003, 11:51 PM
Chris, in your opinion, for naming of pages ... using of hypens or underscores, which is better for google seo?

example:
lemon_juice.htm
or
lemon-juice.htm

:rolleyes:

Chris
08-25-2003, 06:15 AM
hyphens... Google, for whatever odd reason, doesn't parse underscores as spaces (atleast last I checked). This is something I only just figured out a couple months ago when I did some tests.

lemon
08-25-2003, 09:45 AM
Thanks for the tip! :)

I noticed for website-templates.net, you use underscore ... any special reason?

Chris
08-25-2003, 09:50 AM
Because I made that site before I discovered this issue.

lemon
08-26-2003, 04:38 AM
There are still so many people preaching that underscores are better ... sometimes I wonder how those "experts" come up with their weird theories ...

Mike
08-26-2003, 06:08 AM
If you do use underscores, do you think it's worth changing them all?

Chris
08-26-2003, 07:06 AM
On an established site, no. But if your site is brand new without any incoming links yet then you might as well.

Mike
08-26-2003, 07:12 AM
Oh, forgot about that.

If I changed everything all the links in google would be broken:(

Do you think when I have finished tweaking everything (including changing names), I should resubmit to google?

Thanks,
Mike

Chris
08-26-2003, 08:09 AM
I always submit after making a major change like that.

Mike
08-26-2003, 08:51 AM
Ah...ok.

Will it change all the names to their "new" names then?

Thanks,
Mike

Chris
08-26-2003, 10:55 AM
After a crawl and an update, yes.

Mike
08-26-2003, 12:20 PM
Thanks for the help...

Mike
08-28-2003, 02:08 PM
By the way, is it against their TOS to submit your site more than once?

I'm sure I read it once, but can't find it now...

Chris
08-28-2003, 03:03 PM
Its not.