Page Ranking Difference

Going about Two Approaches

[dhaliwal]

I wish to know if there is any difference in ranking of these two approaches to page!

www.site.com/my page.html which will show like
www.site.com/my%20page.html

and the one like this

www.site.com/my+page.html

I know google indexes both of them, but is there any ranking difference or any penalty for %20 used in the url!

I checked my page on searchengineworld.com and it gave my page status as Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved

[dhaliwal]

So much time has passed! stil no, reply?

Does anyone know something to comment on the situation.

[DerekH]

Why not follow the suggestion Googleguy made some time ago, that a hyphen is a good URL token-separator?
I did, and it is!
It removes any uncertainty from your question, which, if people *do* answer it, will probably generate a number of diametrically opposed answers too....
DerekH

[piskie]

I agree with DerekH.
plus I always consider a space in a URL to be absoluetely out of the question.

[Marcia]

Agreed, the %20 or blank spaces really shouldn't be there but it might not be worth hassling about, just not doing it in future for new pages. It's possibly taken as a space but the URL doesn't carry huge weight, probably not enough to start modifying a whole site and waiting for search engines to pick up the changes.

But there's a question about the 302, which could be more of an issue - is the page being redirected, and what's showing up, the original one or the one it's redirecting to?

[dhaliwal]

thanks for all the advice, i thought that people just ignored my query

now my problem is that its a search results page, so i can't use hyphen as it will make the whole thing as one word, i have to put a + in the keyword
like some one will search for "web hosting" i will show it as site.com/search-web+hosting.asp

And about 302,
the page is redirected in case,

there is a url of type index.asp
and if the user asks to index.asp?category=2 then redirected to cat.asp?category=2

the page is served as it is and is not redirected in case i have index.asp?category=2&product=23

so i think the redirection is used on this page and shouldn't make an issue.

Anyways, thanks for spending some time on my query