does google see underscores

denarend · 11-16-2005, 08:49 AM

Does GOOGLE see pages with an underscore in the name? like in "site_map": /http://www.denarend.com/site_map.htm

BadBoy · 11-16-2005, 09:02 AM

Maybe you can find an answer to that here...

SEOforGoogle · 11-16-2005, 09:33 AM

When google sees an underscore it combines the word so:

red_widget.htm would be read as : redwidget

Versus a hyphen which would read: red widget

Always always always use hyphen. Never use underscores!

denarend · 11-17-2005, 07:30 AM

Thank you googler - that was the answer I was looking for. Now to either leave hundreds of underscores in my page file names on www.denarend.com or to change them with immediate lost pages in the search-engine results - but on the long run the separated words may help me in the search results - as they will be seen as words on which I want to be found.

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