Comments on: Hyphen and Underscore for SEO Redux

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:20:49 +0000

@Pondicherry “image the digg”? What does that mean? Yes, the website Digg uses underscores…what’s your point?

By: pondicherry times

pondicherry times — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:06:52 +0000

and yes why cant you image the digg, its full of underscore, but it give best result and show in 1st page of google itself

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:55:21 +0000

David, i am constantly updating my site and adding new pages as the need arises. I have been using hyphens and will keep monitoring the results.
Thanks for your quote and congrats on your articles, to which, by the way, i came through a google search.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:31:29 +0000

Margaret, that’s very peculiar as Google still sees underscores as noise and assumes an underscore phrase is one word.

By: Margaret Jean

Margaret Jean — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:43:13 +0000

I have separately optimized different pages within my site for different keywords under a common global theme with quite good results. Different pages rank pretty well for those keywords.
I have noticed though that when i use hyphens in the page names instead of underscores results are not so good, and it takes longer for google to rank them for that keyword.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:37:02 +0000

Thanks for dropping by Taylor, glad you find the updated post useful. I think there may be others in the Sciencetext archive that could do with a refresh, so if you spot any do let me know.

As to Matt Cutts, he’s a Google employee, apparently, charged with eradicating spam from their index, I guess they don’t want to show favoritism by giving him a higher page rank, but yes, you’d think he’d be ranking higher than a PR6 given his prominence in the blogging about blogging and webmaster spheres.

By: Taylor Thompson

Taylor Thompson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:28:41 +0000

Thanks for the information man I had no idea. Speaking of Matt Cutts, does everyone seriously know who that guy is? And shouldn’t he have a little bit higher of a page rank than 6? Just a thought. I would think so. Anyway, thanks for the info man. I’ll be back for more for sure!

By: Mohit

Mohit — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:44:16 +0000

I agree with your article, but would you like to also provide some updated information as it’s been a year now.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:57:25 +0000

Okay. Thanks for the tips.

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:36:17 +0000

If think it is a good tactic to be used for your links campaigns.

A lot of site are relying on Google news to display targeted new on their site, and you then get a direct link to your site.

But this has to go through a SEO process:
1) monitor the number of sites using your news, and tune the keywords in your copies to increase this number.
2) monitor the traffic you get to specific news, and see how more links to a targeted news increase traffic

Emmanuel
http://www.getbiz.co.uk