Those hated hyphens

What about interior pages.

[Powdork]

I myself hate the hyphenated keyword rich domains that constantly fill up serps for competitive phrases. But what about for interior pages of a small directory. For instance, if

<title> Company Name- Our Area wedding hair styles</title>

with this linking to it

<a href="companyname-our-area-wedding-hair.htm"><img src="wedding-hair.jpg" width="72" height="85" align="top" alt="Company Name_ Our area wedding hairstyles." border="0"></a>

would the hyphens (or underscores) in the url's help if I did this through out the lower levels of the direcotry?

[egomaniac]

Yes this will help. This is one of those small things you can do to give your pages a boost.

You could probably drop the "companyname" part of the url, since I am guessing that the "our-area-wedding-hair" portion represents your keyword phrase (in other words does "companyname" have any keyword value for you?).

The key to not getting in trouble is to make the urls (and everything else you do in optimizing) reasonable. "companyname-our-area-wedding-hair.htm" is getting a bit long.

FYI - Keywords in the domain portion of the url are generally given more importance than keywords in the filename.

[Powdork]

Thanks and will do.