Hyphens or no hyphens for different pages?

Damion

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• Mar 26, 2007

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It's indeed better to use hyphens.

 

GiddyUp

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• Mar 26, 2007

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thanks for the confirmation, Damion

 

Keral_Patel

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• Mar 27, 2007

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Found an old thread about this one. http://www.namepros.com/domain-name...engine-optimization.html?highlight=underscore

Maybe it will come in handy for further reading.

 

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• Mar 27, 2007

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Yes, hyphens seperate the keywords and they reffer the search bot to the keyword again!

 

shockie

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• Mar 27, 2007

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does anyone know whether camelNotation helps out the SEs at all?...

 

Damion

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• Mar 27, 2007

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I don't think SE's can differentiate in all cases that there are separate words then.
For instance: penIsland.html may mean to you Pen Island but it can also be perceived as Penis land by the SE's.

So this wouldn't be helpful. Hyphens is the better choice to make.

 

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• Mar 27, 2007

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I'm not so sure about this. Perhaps hyphens helped a few years ago, but now Google seems pretty good at spotting keywords even without them.

Do a search for a single keyword, and scan down the results. You'll see the keyword highlighted in domains like this: thisisthekeyword.com; you may also see some like this: domain.com/keyworddirectory/.

If Google can highlight the word when it isn't separated by hyphens, then doesn't that suggest that hyphens aren't necessary to point Google to the keyword?

Or am I missing something?

 

gotlinks

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• Mar 27, 2007

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It still helps

 

Damion

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• Mar 27, 2007

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Tim, it is indeed true that Google can in a lot of cases differentiate since it shows you it can but wouldn't it be better to stay on the safe side and keep it as clear as possible?

Why take the chance right?
It's good practice.

 

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• Mar 27, 2007

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ok thanks. i just did a search and google is able to distinguish my keywords (yay). for the rest of you, if google isn't picking them up then throw in some hyphens.

aside: i was always taught that camelNotation was good practice... but then again that was programming class, not seo class

 

Damion

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• Mar 27, 2007

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Yes, always use hyphens to distinguish separate words in your Page Titles and File names, Metatags, Alt Tags.

 

Keral_Patel

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• Mar 28, 2007

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Read about the advantages and disadvantages of hypens and underscore.

For EX: http://www.hotappz.com/product_info1.html - Created this last year.
Then created this one. http://www.downzine.com/product-info1.html

The downzine.com is showing better results then the hotappz.com. Even with less marketing effort.

 

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• Mar 29, 2007

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I would think that it's better to us - than to use A . the main thing is to use keywords that help with seo!