Comments on: Dashes vs. Underscores in webpage names

By: Gorbo

Gorbo — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:53:05 +0000

Excellent example, I have only one domain using dashes and is ranking ok for the main keyword.

By: Susan Alta

Susan Alta — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:12:30 +0000

Hi Ben, That shouldn’t happen. Dashes in titles should display as dashes or spaces in Google. You might make sure that you used the regular dash character (-) and not the elongated dash character (—).

By: Ben Arlo

Ben Arlo — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:41:12 +0000

Hi,

I’m wondering what the story is with website titles. If I use a dash in the title (not url) that an unreadable character comes up when I check my site on google.

Altrnatives?

By: SurlyE

SurlyE — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:38:00 +0000

I read Mike’s post on his blog and experimented using his advice and found exactly the opposite to be true. If I searched word combinations / possible web page names with just spaces the search returned only pages like example: > Members-Form.html and it was not until I purposely searched Members_Form that I viewed any listing of example: > Members_Form.html. My Findings so heavily favored the above article that it is nonsensical to even debate.

http://www.oz2designs.com
http://www.animationpa.com

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:13:05 +0000

Read here for a totally different opininion based on real experiments:

http://12pointdesign.com/advice/dashes_vs_underscores.asp

By: Scott Kane

Scott Kane — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Sue,
It is a good tip. I do my pages and blog posts that way by default. I’ve noticed the difference in results, but it’s one of those things, for some reason, I never wondered exactly why about. Until now that is.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:41:49 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. This explains a lot of about some of the search results we find on Google!