Hyphens-Underscores_Concatenations

Which is best?

[IanTurner]

I just wondered if anyone has any opinions on which of the above methods is most useful in site promotion in the following areas

1. URL
2. Sub-directory naming
3. Page naming

And whether everyone is agreed that it is useful to have your keywords in the names in all those categories.

All the best
Ian

[Ove]

Hello
look at this

[webmasterworld.com...]
/Ove

[IanTurner]

Ove, I saw that discussion and that is the reason I posted this topic - it seems that there is quite some dispute at the moment as to the best route on -_etc. So it was in order to seperate the two threads in that discussion that I posted this topic.

All the best
Ian

[stuart]

I went with mydomain.com/under_scores_1.html after loads of reading and questions on this one. I don't think there's much-in-it though but remember the right people here saying_underscores had the edge in filenames and url's shouldbetogether.com. I've also seen alot of good websites do it this way, plus_they look clearer in the address bar. Remember reading a good limit for the character length of the full pathname is approx 35 characters. Hope that helps.

[toolman]

_ underscores and - hyphens both get translated as spaces. Numbers in a url are ignored.

[grnidone]

One thought with underscores: sometimes you can't see them when they are in an underlined link. Someone might think they can put a space into the url.

-G