Professional SEO Tip #11 – Lose Those URL Underscores!

I recently conducted an SEO audit on an ecommerce website that was using underscores (the _ symbol) in its URL’s as a word separator.

If you are doing this, you should replace those underscores with hyphens (the – symbol) as Google is able to separate hyphenated words far more easily, and apportion SEO score accordingly.

So, as an example, rather than:

yoursite.com/categories/monkey_food

You should use:

yoursite.com/categories/monkey-food

Further Reading: Dashes Vs Underscores