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underscores or hyphens in URL as separators ...
...For search engines (especially google) ???

Is it the same, is one better than the other?

txs for your helpWink

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GT use ; in theirs (see the forum URLs). You should be able to use that.

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Well neither underscores nor hyphens are ever used so I'm not sure what you are referrring to?
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Do you mean underscores/hyphens in domain, directory, and file names?

If so, I'm pretty sure Google is able to recognize either as a word separator, so it shouldn't make much difference.

www.my-web-site.com/the_directory/the_file.html

should be the same for SEO purposes as:

www.my-web-site.com/the-directory/the-file.html

Also, you can't use underscores in domain names, only hyphens.

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Re: [hennagaijin] underscores or hyphens in URL as separators ... In reply to
Always use a hyphen as a separatot over underscore. Workd well...!!
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