Keyword in URL

[creative craig]

Lets say that I have a page and the url is:

the_history_of_blue_furry_monkeys.html

Now would it be better to have:

the-history-of-blue-furry-monkeys.html

Or even have it all in one go with no breaks in between the words.

Just from checking out my stats everyday I can see that 99% of all searches from most search engines depend on lower or upper case keywords.

What are peoples opinions on this one, I know its an old question but I am in two minds of how to lable the pages on a site that I am designing at the moment.

Cheers :)

Craig

[Dino_M]

It's hard to be 100% sure, but for me keyword_keyword works better than keyword-keyword. I'm sure someone else here will disagree but that's my view on it.

But for passing on the URL i.e. telephone, offline advertising etc.. keywordkeyword is best!

[Ove]

Hi

the-history-of-blue-furry-monkeys.html
This would be a better choice because google dont treat underscore like a space but the hyphen will be a space for google.

I always build domain names and filenames on kw´s
Its working for me.

/Ove

[vitaplease]

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[creative craig]

Ok vitaplease, but thats just for Google. After the last update and alot of peope saying that they were hurt by Google in some way or another, I would like to know if this is the same with all search engines!

[WebGuerrilla]

Most engines treat hyphens and underscores the same. Google does not. So given the fact that Google controls almost all search on the entire web, I would tend to go with the one that works the best on Google. (Even if I wasn't doing well on Google at the moment).

The one that works best for Google is the hyphen.