Keyword placement in URL

Best way to organize the keywords at the URL

[cyberair]

I am in the process of launching a new website and have the option of creating the URLs in these two different ways. I would like to know which ones is more SEF...

widgets.com/category/sub category/title of the article

or
widgets.com/category/sub-category/title-of-the-article

Notice that on the first option, it is actually spaces, not underscores. Will these spaces be SEF? And are they better than the "-"?

[mona]

Hmmm...never heard of using spaces before so I don't know if they would be SEF. The general concensus around here seems to be that hyphens are the most effective. I use both hyphens and underscores depending on the situation. ( I just prefer the way underscores look.)

[cyberair]

I know that hyphens are more effective than underscores. From what I have read, hyphens are read as spaces in google and underscores are read as a characters. Thus, an underscore won't separate the words from en seo standpoint.

However, I have a feeling that a space which is read by the browser as %20 will also be seen as a space by the search engines... hmm, what to do? I think I am just going with hyphens.

[VegasRook]

wow. I have been using underscores all this time because I liked their look. No more!

You would think that a space and a hyphen are the same if the engine views them as such. Of course the url looks different and IMHO, hyphens are better.

[ogletree]

I always use dashes. Spaces look bad because the se's put a % something in the URL in the engine. It is very ugly. spaces really shouldn't be used.

[hfwd]

I like underscore. Hypens look kind of spammy nowadays.

[zooloo]

Googleguy said... "I'd use hyphens"

No idea of what or where the post is/was.

But that's why I use hyphens.

zoo

[cyberair]

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