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Mequoda Pro Q&A Search Engine Optimization

Is it better SEO to use underlines between words in URLs, or dashes?

[question]Is it better SEO to use underlines between words in URLs, or dashes?[/question]
[answer]Dashes, because while Google now considers dashes a space between words, MSN and some other search engines still see them as connecting two words together.[/answer]

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