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Should I Use Dashes (-) or Underscores (_) in my URLs?
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Many Webmasters include their target keywords in their page URLs. It is also important, both for readability and Search Engine Optimization, to separate those keywords. The most commonly used characters for this are the dash (-) and the underscore (_) . There is a good deal of discussion as which is better for readability and SEO and why. Almost all discussion has come to this ultimate realization: dashes are preferable to underscores.
Here's why:
- Dashes are better for search - Google engineers have publicly stated that this is the case.
- Dashes are better for readability
- Dashes are used in the English language - try and remember the last place you used an underscore in a sentence and it was grammatically correct.











