Not that I want to dredge this thread up, but I felt I needed to point this out, if nothing else, to avoid keeping a secret in an open discussion.
In another discussion, I was prompted to do a search for "hypen vs underscore"
Guess what the first page or two to come up were? This thread, with the "_" character in the URL.
It had a PR of 0.
Several pages below it had a PR of 1 or more.
So... URL's are counted differently than body text. The _ seems to be well parsed.
If you want to "nail" your searches, use the "_" in your URL's *and* put (maybe even hidden) the "_" version of your main keyword on your page, since that will be indexed as-is, giving you an edge if a user searches for "key_word" rather than "key word" or "key-word".
This isn't "proof" one way or the other, but if the #1 ranked for this search is a set of pages with a PR of 0, and "_" in the URL, ... it has to mean _something_
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In another discussion, I was prompted to do a search for "hypen vs underscore"
Guess what the first page or two to come up were? This thread, with the "_" character in the URL.
It had a PR of 0.
Several pages below it had a PR of 1 or more.
So... URL's are counted differently than body text. The _ seems to be well parsed.
If you want to "nail" your searches, use the "_" in your URL's *and* put (maybe even hidden) the "_" version of your main keyword on your page, since that will be indexed as-is, giving you an edge if a user searches for "key_word" rather than "key word" or "key-word".
This isn't "proof" one way or the other, but if the #1 ranked for this search is a set of pages with a PR of 0, and "_" in the URL, ... it has to mean _something_
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
