Now All Engines Treat Underscores as Word Separators

Halfdeck · 2007-08-03, 01:26 AM

Barry Schwartz, an SEO news guy, recently contacted all major engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask) and confirmed that now they all treat _ as word separators, similar to how - (dashes) are treated.

So, assuming we're being told the truth and all other factors being equal:

fucked_her_in_the_ass.html

will rank as well as

fucked-her-in-the-ass.html

Before, Google treated _ as a character, to be useful in searches like $_HTTP, $_REQUEST, $_SERVER, etc.

Personally, I still like dashes better than underscores.

2007-08-03, 01:26 AM	#1
Halfdeck You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Haven, CT Posts: 985	Now All Engines Treat Underscores as Word Separators Barry Schwartz, an SEO news guy, recently contacted all major engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask) and confirmed that now they all treat _ as word separators, similar to how - (dashes) are treated. So, assuming we're being told the truth and all other factors being equal: fucked_her_in_the_ass.html will rank as well as fucked-her-in-the-ass.html Before, Google treated _ as a character, to be useful in searches like $_HTTP, $_REQUEST, $_SERVER, etc. Personally, I still like dashes better than underscores. __________________ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.