Underscores As Word Separators
Matt Cutts recently announced that underscores will now be or at least very soon to be treated as word separators by Google. This was his statement at the recent WordCamp 2007 in front of fans and wordpress bloggers….
This explains that urls like http://www.yourdomain.com/car_loans.html will now be read as “car loans” unlike before that it is read by google almighty as “car_loans” wherein we all know that no one will search for it having the underscores.
This is great news mostly for Typepad and Movable Type blog users wherein by default uses underscores instead of hyphens. Also, this made me think of using the two platforms now (they’ll surely hit some google traffic now) after getting my free hosted blogs in wordpress closed due to something I wasn’t really aware of. All I know is I used them for the current “Paradise Philippines” seo contest and they’re showing strong in the serp!
News Source: Stephen Spencer
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