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  • Resolved pisang20

    (@pisang20)


    Hello, Is there any difference using – or _ in slugs or wherever. How does it affect SEO?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Goodness no, those are just two different characters. The difference between – and _ is just as much as the difference between a and b.

    Funkphenomenon

    (@funkphenomenon)

    Those are not different characters, see e.g.
    http://searchengineland.com/9-seo-quirks-you-should-be-aware-of-146465

    Funkphenomenon

    (@funkphenomenon)

    So I meant to say, underscore and hyphen are treated differently.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    I wouldn’t put much trust in snake oil SEO like that, there’s a lot of false information out there.

    Google has yet to publish anything to claim that it treats – and _ differently in URL structure.

    MarkRH

    (@markrh)

    Well according to this video from Google Webmasters, they are treated differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8

    But, it’s apparently not that big a deal really.

    Funkphenomenon

    (@funkphenomenon)

    @james, I would not be so quick to call out stuff if you didn’t even look at the link, where Matt Cutts from Google explained the difference.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    @funkphenomenon, In future you can just link to the official resources like Mark did.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    Thanks for the info, much appreciated. I stand corrected.

    (FWIW, there are numerous “SEO” sites out there that are filled with fake quotes from Matt Cutts, I just don’t trust them by default. I didn’t realize this one was a video, which is great. In the future, I’d recommend just linking to that, it looks less spammy to those of us who have to deal with spam every day here.)

    Thread Starter pisang20

    (@pisang20)

    Thx 🙂

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