I have changed the inner page url. Modified underscores to hyphen. Will this have any effect? Visibility effects but no effect on anything else.
Regards,
Garry Hillton Search engines can read both hyphens and underscores. So you may not get any effect. Hyphens are recommended to use because they are user friendly. Helps to read and remember your url easily. Technically speaking, the impacts on your web ranks on Google and other search engines will not be that huge but it is a general recommendation these days that webmasters make use of hyphens while creating new content pages. Blogs can be the best example to name in here and if you have worked with them, you know that when new posts are added to the portals, some keyword-based URLs would get created, containing hyphens or dashes instead of underscores and hyphens seem to be nice.
Another example to name in here is concerning most forums which have SE friendly pages structures, they too use hyphens instead of underscores which may seem a bit awkward to maintain in the long term, especially if you are going to build content pages and upload them manually. Having said that, apart from the matter of handling pages structures, the effects on ranks would be no different than the time underscores were used, Wikipedia for example used pages addresses created via underscores.
Regards,
Garry Hillton Search engines can read both hyphens and underscores. So you may not get any effect. Hyphens are recommended to use because they are user friendly. Helps to read and remember your url easily. Technically speaking, the impacts on your web ranks on Google and other search engines will not be that huge but it is a general recommendation these days that webmasters make use of hyphens while creating new content pages. Blogs can be the best example to name in here and if you have worked with them, you know that when new posts are added to the portals, some keyword-based URLs would get created, containing hyphens or dashes instead of underscores and hyphens seem to be nice.
Another example to name in here is concerning most forums which have SE friendly pages structures, they too use hyphens instead of underscores which may seem a bit awkward to maintain in the long term, especially if you are going to build content pages and upload them manually. Having said that, apart from the matter of handling pages structures, the effects on ranks would be no different than the time underscores were used, Wikipedia for example used pages addresses created via underscores.