Miamacs - 11:43 am on Aug 10, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Did everyone here try allinanchor: before messing up their sites? Or any kind of search that'd be unique to their URLs?

The report wasn't inaccurate it said exactly what it meant to say that Google is looking into the possibility of underscores being a word separator. Hearing it I felt somewhat sad, that I could be moved by a promise like that, ( all the hobby sites we do with friends, all the sites I really like are using them ) and that was the first thing I did. Went over to Google and checked allinanchor: ...

And checked again after 4 days.

Then again after two weeks or so.

Nope, still not a word separator.
At least not in URLs it ain't.

Completely out of context, a site I saw ( gathering intelligence ) with major accessibility and dupe content problems, AND in the -950 zone redirected its perfectly OK most important page to a URL with an underscore the NEXT DAY the reports came in. Of course the old URL fell out of the index, and the new never got in.

SEOs, Webmasters the message of the day is:

Don't haste things, tread carefully...

Test everything.
News aren't there to tell you what you should do.
News are to confirm what you've been seeing.

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