WordPress SEO - To Hyphen or Not to Hyphen?

[Norris416]

hello - I'm doing my best to optimize my new WP mini site but I'm confused about one aspect.

I've adjusted the page / blog structure to use actual customized names for each page or post. I'm using a hyphen in between each word in the page titles.

ie. domainname.com/page-name.

Is that effective SEO or should I lose the "-" and do this:

domainname.com/pagename

OR is there a better way to do it?

Obviously this only applies to multiple word pages/posts.

Insight and wisdom appreciated.

Thanks everyone!!!

 

[thebutler]

Keep the hypen

Keep the hypens. It will help with long tail keyword phrases in the search engines. You can really work your page and/or blog entries to hit some keyword phrases.

 

[shockie]

you might as well keep them if they're in there, but i think they play only a very small role in seo, unless you have very obscure keywords.

 

[angilina]

hello - I'm doing my best to optimize my new WP mini site but I'm confused about one aspect.

I've adjusted the page / blog structure to use actual customized names for each page or post. I'm using a hyphen in between each word in the page titles.

ie. domainname.com/page-name.

Is that effective SEO or should I lose the "-" and do this:

domainname.com/pagename

OR is there a better way to do it?

Obviously this only applies to multiple word pages/posts.

Insight and wisdom appreciated.

Thanks everyone!!!

I think I saw Matt Cutts saying that using hyphen between words will make the two words separate. Not using them means that SE bot will consider them one word.

I am not sure about it. I will try to search Matt Cutts blog to find the post where he talked about this.