Always Use Dashes Not Underscores In URLS
In my early days I was dumb enough to make URLs like this:
http://www.gamebrink.com/playstation-portable/2981-Dragoneers_Aria-info.html
It’s almost good but not quite. You see Dragoneers_Aria has an underscore.
2 years ago I thought nothing of it but today I’ve come to find out that Google and other search engines see the underscore as no space at all.
So in reality Google sees Dragoneers_Aria as DragoneersAria. This is bad.
So for further projects I’ve moved over to all dashes instead of underscores which is the default in Wordpress for a reason.
Very few pages at GameBrink rank in Google while this blog and NuclearSushi.com started ranking right away largely because I used Dashes and not Underscores.
So Metroid_Prime_3 is BAD as Google sees this as MetroidPrime3.
And Metroid-Prime-3 is GOOD because Google sees this as Metroid Prime 3!
And even though Google as come out and publicly said that now Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google I see no reason for you to test this theory as in practice I’ve found this not to be true.
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