Google: Actually, Dashes Aren’t The Same As Underscores Yet

Matt Cutts of Google informs everyone that reports of Google now treating underscores as word separators is not yet happening. Matt explains: I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all […]

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Matt Cutts of Google informs everyone that reports of Google now treating underscores as word separators is not yet happening.

Matt explains:

I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.

It’s Not Just Google That Treats Underscores Like Dashes that I wrote a few weeks ago, obviously now needs to be updated.

We will keep you informed of any new changes with this, as we hear updates.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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