Usage Of Underscore And Hyphens In URLs

There is a very widely prevailed confusion and sometimes mus-conceptions among web masters regarding the usage of underscores and hyphens as word separators when using in a URL.

Clearing this myth, Matt Cutts in a recent video post elaborated the fact that hyphens are most likely to be used as word separator when defining a URL. In case you a website wherein some inner pages have used underscore as separator, and is working fine, then you need not change it.



However, hyphens as word separators are more effective and user friendly, as compared with underscore. This is the reason several of webpages and blogs which are successful are using hyphens as word separators.

Although we can not deny the fact underscore is more used as word separator in emails, rather than in websites. However, the technology innovators and thinkers are devising ways to make underscore as a word separator in lieu with hyphen. But, for the time being, it is better to use hyphens as work separator for defining URLs.
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