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by grecy 4806 days ago
You mean like

http://example.com/something-about-something ?

Matt Cutts actually recommends using hyphens in this case:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

1 comments

Thanks for the link! Very helpful. However, my own searching suggests Google treats /something-about-something/ similar to /somethingaboutsomething/. So it isn't a perfect example. If the same content is on both url's, would one always win?

Our own debate was whether to hyphenate a two word phrase in the directory structure: /kitchensink/whatever/ vs /kitchen-sink/whatever/. So we had to do a similar debate as the domain hyphen analysis. Spam signal/Google treatment vs. User Convenience vs. Does it really matter.