FYI: Word Separators

Lower-case or upper-case letters


Google does not make any difference between lower-case and upper-case letters.
Example : Directory = DIRECTORY = directory = dIReCtORY
Singular or plural


With Google, as far as the search algorithm is concerned, if one letter is different, the results of the search will be different. Thus a singular word will be different from the same word in the plural.
Example : engine is different from engines
Word separators in the texts and titles


In the titles and the text, one can obviously validly separate two words by a space, the end of a line or by means of other page-settings.
One can also use all the usual punctuation marks, like the point (.), the comma (), the square brackets, the parentheses and the braces ([ ] () {}),… and symbols, like “@”, “$”, “%”, “#”, “+”, “/”, “=”, etc.

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[passionista]

it's a good thing you were able to bring up this topic... thus using separators such as underscores, hyphen and any other form should really be given attention too... sometimes because of misuse of these separators keywords are no longer recognized...

[skysoldier]

One mistake in hypens or separators may result a different keyword or like what you said one mis-use has a really big effect for SE's.

[~Dark-EyE~]

Proper use of word separators are really important. We should always review our contents and try to see if there are problems that will affect our targeted keywords...

[x3mario]

It is very important that we follow the right usage of keyword separator as we aim also to have a better SERP.

[~Dark-EyE~]

Originally Posted by x3mario

It is very important that we follow the right usage of keyword separator as we aim also to have a better SERP.

Yeah right, it really plays a vital role when it comes to Keyword Search.

[avril]

Common mistake is the used of '

like Who'S The Boss DVD and WhoS The Boss DVD

Is that matter???

[toinkzzz]

Thanks for this tips coolguy! for me,, hyphen and underscore separators could help you determine your page clearly...

[bodhost.co.uk]

Thanks for this helpful post.

[raven1083]

thats a pretty nice information, thanks