html code slightly off topic (which choice is best)

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When creating a web page with two names EG, Which is the best choice 1-5
for search engines to find. ? for example
1. horse racing.html
2. horseracing.html
3. horse_racing.html
4. horse-racing.html
5. horse.racing.html

I would be interested to know the best choice, and why.

Tony m
 
I'd pick:

2
4
3
and not 5 or 1


| When creating a web page with two names EG, Which is the best choice 1-5
| for search engines to find. ? for example
| 1. horse racing.html
| 2. horseracing.html
| 3. horse_racing.html
| 4. horse-racing.html
| 5. horse.racing.html
|
| I would be interested to know the best choice, and why.
|
| Tony m
|
|
 
Rob Giordano (Crash) said:
I'd pick:

2
4
3
and not 5 or 1
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I'd pick 3. Nothing to do with search engines. I just think it looks nicer
to space the words with _ rather than - (choice 4) or no space at all
(choice 2)
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Cheers,
Trevor L.
[ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
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Its enough to confuse me. I posted the same question on another web developers newsgroup and the result from people in the business was either or both or Nos 2,3,or 4 No body picked No1

I asked 10 people who use the web , family and friends and I asked them what would they type in if they were researching horse racing and 8 out of 10 said horse racing the other two picked Nos 3 and 4. I did a Google search and horse racing gave a better response that the others I have always used no4. I think its time for a change in naming web pages.
 
Use 3 or 4
- some SEO claim 4 will get you a better Google ranking
Both 3 & 4 for will be found using a search for horse racing
- since the search engines treat the _ and - as a word separators

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_____________________________________________
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Its enough to confuse me. I posted the same question on another web developers newsgroup and the result from people in the
business was either or both or Nos 2,3,or 4 No body picked No1

I asked 10 people who use the web , family and friends and I asked them what would they type in if they were researching horse
racing and 8 out of 10 said horse racing the other two picked Nos 3 and 4. I did a Google search and horse racing gave a
better response that the others I have always used no4. I think its time for a change in naming web pages.
 
Actually, I have read that Google only treats the "-" as a word separator.
In other words, it would see "horse-racing" as two words, but "horse_racing"
as one.

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Murray
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MVP FrontPage


Stefan B Rusynko said:
Use 3 or 4
- some SEO claim 4 will get you a better Google ranking
Both 3 & 4 for will be found using a search for horse racing
- since the search engines treat the _ and - as a word separators

--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
_____________________________________________


Its enough to confuse me. I posted the same question on another web
developers newsgroup and the result from people in the
business was either or both or Nos 2,3,or 4 No body picked No1

I asked 10 people who use the web , family and friends and I asked them
what would they type in if they were researching horse
racing and 8 out of 10 said horse racing the other two picked Nos 3
and 4. I did a Google search and horse racing gave a
better response that the others I have always used no4. I think its time
for a change in naming web pages.



Rob Giordano (Crash) said:
I'd pick:

2
4
3
and not 5 or 1


| When creating a web page with two names EG, Which is the best choice
1-5
| for search engines to find. ? for example
| 1. horse racing.html
| 2. horseracing.html
| 3. horse_racing.html
| 4. horse-racing.html
| 5. horse.racing.html
|
| I would be interested to know the best choice, and why.
|
| Tony m
|
|
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Avoid #1 like the plaque. It will give you nothing but trouble.
Like Stefan wrote, a search in Google for horse racing will find both
3 and 4. Some think that it looks better with _ than with -. However,
SEO wise there are no difference between the two.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
 
yeah but it's hard to see the underscore if linked.
have no idea it matters to search engines though.


| | > I'd pick:
| >
| > 2
| > 4
| > 3
| > and not 5 or 1
|
|
| I'd pick 3. Nothing to do with search engines. I just think it looks nicer
| to space the words with _ rather than - (choice 4) or no space at all
| (choice 2)
| --
| Cheers,
| Trevor L.
| [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| MVPS Website: http://trevorl.mvps.org/
| ----------------------------------------
|
 
exactamundo


| Neither 1 nor 5 would be valid page names anyhow.
|
| --
| Murray
| --------------
| MVP FrontPage
|
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| | > I'd pick:
| >
| > 2
| > 4
| > 3
| > and not 5 or 1
| >
| >
| > | > | When creating a web page with two names EG, Which is the best choice
| > 1-5
| > | for search engines to find. ? for example
| > | 1. horse racing.html
| > | 2. horseracing.html
| > | 3. horse_racing.html
| > | 4. horse-racing.html
| > | 5. horse.racing.html
| > |
| > | I would be interested to know the best choice, and why.
| > |
| > | Tony m
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
Tony M said:
When creating a web page with two names EG, Which is the best choice 1-5
for search engines to find. ? for example
1. horse racing.html
2. horseracing.html
3. horse_racing.html
4. horse-racing.html
5. horse.racing.html

I would be interested to know the best choice, and why.
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#1 isn't a valid file name and should never be used at all.

#2 and #3 will be read by search engines as one word, "horseracing".

#4 is a good choice

#5 - I'm not sure this is a valid file name either - I'd avoid it

Having said that - this one thing won't make or break your search engine
positioning. A lot of other factors (relevant content, clean code,
reciprocal links) are a lot more important.
 
Tests shows that it is the other way around. Number 2 and 4 return
same search results with words that actually contain the - character
weighted.
The same with one 1 and 3.
2 and 3 are clearly read differently but both contain results
containing horse racing as well as horseracing.
I didn't test 5 as it is invalid anyway.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.
 
2 and 3 are clearly read differently but both contain results
containing horse racing as well as horseracing.
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But do the resulting pages have both phrases ? That would explain the
dual results.
 
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