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Carol V.

I have read on this newsgroup that for SEO it is best to separate words in a
file name with a hyphen as opposed to an underscore. What about the "page
title". Would you enter it with spaces, hyphen, or underscore? Or does it
even matter.

1. Page title

2. Page-title

3. Page_title

Carol
 
You leave the spaces in the page title.
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|I have read on this newsgroup that for SEO it is best to separate words in
a
| file name with a hyphen as opposed to an underscore. What about the "page
| title". Would you enter it with spaces, hyphen, or underscore? Or does
it
| even matter.
|
| 1. Page title
|
| 2. Page-title
|
| 3. Page_title
|
| Carol
|
|
 
The "Page Title" is just text which appears at the top of the browser
window ( i.e. My Page Title : Internet Explorer 7.0), so spaces are
fine. The title in the HTML appears as follows in the <head> section:

<title>Page Title</title>

The FILE NAME, which is independent to the title, should be all lower
case or numbers, underscores, or hyphens, with no spaces or other
special characters, such as my-page.htm. Hyphens and underscores are
both fine, but I prefer hyphens only to ensure they are visible if the
hyperlink is underlined (as is usual).


Paul S. Wolf, P.E., FITE mailto:p[email protected]
 
Thanks. That was what I was looking for. In another thread a while back,
they stated that google saw the hyphens better as spaces than underscores.
You make a good point about the hyperlink being underlined. I never thought
of that.

Carol
 
Also, forgot to ask. Does it matter if my folders such as "Images" are
capitalized? Also what about the images file names such as
"My-Photo-Dog.jpg"

Carol
 
Only matter if your site is hosted on Unix/Linux where Images and images are consider to be two
different names.

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It is a Linux based server I think. I have my images folders in other
folders. Such as "gallery\images" "about-us\images" and so on. I just
changed all the Images folders to images. Would the problem be in the
links? Is that what you are telling me?

What about the actual .jpg file names? Is it OK for those to have capitals?

Carol
 
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