Difference between _ and . in url

[Tjardick]

Is there a difference between using:

This_is_my_page.html

and

This.is.my.page.html

if google (or maybe others) look at the url for pr value?

Greetings,

Tj

[trillianjedi]

Just bumping this up as the pre-mod has sent it down the list.....

By the way, say hello to Tjardick, my partner in crime and also known (confusingly) as "Tj".

We're unrelated.

;)

TJ

<Added: btw Tj, it makes no difference whatsoever to PR - but may make a difference to the way keywords are read in the URL, which I think is the actual question>

[Mohamed_E]

There is a big difference in defining keywords. Google, for some reason, considers underscore a valid word component, while period and hyphen are word separators.

So blue-widgets.html or blue.widgets.html will match both blue and widgets, while blue_widgets.html will only match the non-word blue_widgets.

[killroy]

Interesting variation on the theme:

I've recently started using plain dashes "-" but noticed that some of the "words" in my urls actually include dashes, so the page title would be "widgetizmo-3 Details" and the url would be "widgetizmo-3-details". This of course means I cannot automagically rebuild the titles from the urls. Also it kinda reads strange, and doesn't seem to map naturally.

Your post makes me wonder if I would be better off with: "widgetizmo-3.details", retaining the dash as a usefull distinguishable character (of course loosing the full-stop though).

SN