kword1,kword2.html

is better than kword1-kword2.html

[Oliver]

there is someone which something knows on the use of the comma in the Link, instead of dash(-)?

[jeremy goodrich]

Inbound link(s) to your site & PageRank are far more important than any type of page naming scheme.

In addition, hyperlinks shouldn't have commas in them, as most common servers run some form of *nix, which the file naming scheme says that the only acceptable characters are period, underscore et - even in *nix a dash is NOT an acceptable file name format.

Comma is definitely not acceptable under traditional *nix... :)

Hope that helps.

[Netizen]

I would try to make links that work for the user of the website and people that want to link to those pages, and not worry about minor tweaks to page names to help your SERPs. Spend the time saved producing better and/or more content.

[Critter]

Jeremy:

I don't know what type of *nix you're running, but on FreeBSD (and all *nixs as far as I know) the only unacceptable file name character is a slash (/).

Peter

[jeremy goodrich]

Hm, perhaps I was thinking of the http specification rather than a *nix convention?

Either way, very, very few sites that I've seen riding high in the SERP on Google have the comma in the path - though there are, of course, a few high end CMS systems that use commas, and yes - they do get indexed.

Other search engines though (even though this is the Google News forum) aren't so forgiving. :)

[swerve]

Oliver, dash(-) is best.

[jeremy goodrich]

Dash - or underscore? I've seen both work well - as I said before, imho, worry more about PageRank & anchor text, and the web map.

However, if you must - I say underscore :) he he he he.

[vincevincevince]

to throw in a spanner:

i use + between my words in file names (widget+blue+stuff.html)

if i search for allinurl:"widget+blue+stuff" then my page doesn't come up! why not?

[Critter]

Actually, I'd go with the dash as it's acceptable in a domain name while the underscore isn't :)

Stick to the characters that are acceptable in the domain-naming convention...namely 0-9, a-z and dash (of course, the period is there for file type delimitation etc.)

Peter

[swerve]

Dash - or underscore?

Dash (hyphen). Google does not recognize underscore as a word seperator. Meaning a search for "key word" will never match "key_word".