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 […]
Barry Schwartz on August 10, 2007 at 8:56 am | Reading time: 1 minute
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 is a technologist and 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.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.