designasp - 6:04 am on Apr 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi

We now know from Matt Cutts that hyphens are the preferred delimiters in URLs.

For example
www.widgets.com/bright-new-widgets is better than
www.widgets.com/bright_new_widgets or
www.widgets.com/bright+new+widgets

But with .htaccess rewrite rules, sometimes you can only have so many hyphens. What other character can also be used in this case?

For example for:
www.widgets.com/news-about-bright-new-widgets

In the above example, since the "news-about" is another variable it needs to be delimited with another character to separate it from "bright-new-widgets"

Is using "plus"(+) an option? Is there another character which is acceptable. I have seen many posts on similar questions asked, but no concrete answers.

I could make another directory like:
www.widgets.com/news-about/bright-new-widgets
but I would prefer not to.

Any ideas?