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    jdotchon
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    Posted: 2006-May-09 22:57
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    My first post with a couple of questions about url/web address. We have blank spaces in the URL, is this good or bad practice? We will have the option to use a "-" character in a months time when they upgrade website software, so can replace the blank space, is this better?

    In the html source code the url contains blank spaces, but after I click on it the URL in internet explorer address bar is converted "XYZ%ABC/", the blank spaces are converted to '%', will this have any impact when the Crawlers/Bots index our site, and how/if will this affect google pagerank?

    Thanks is advance for any answers, Julian.



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    Posted: 2006-May-09 23:10
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    Never use spaces ( ) or underscores (_) in URLs. They cause a lot of problems.

    Make sure that you always use dots (.) or hyphens (-) to separate the words.



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    Posted: 2006-May-19 10:52
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    Do not use underscores in URL. Always use dots or hyphens in URL. Hyphens are used to seperate two words.



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    Posted: 2006-May-31 19:08
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    Thanks for the answers.

    One more question, does having a double slash in the url, example below, create any problems, i think this is stopping bots/crawlers looking at these pages?





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    Posted: 2006-May-31 19:13
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    jdotchon - Please put links in your profile as per our TOS - Thanks


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