http://bosmol.com/2009/02/hyphens-vs-underscores.html Subscribe to our RSS Feed for web 2.0 marketing techniques and interesting facts. Stay up-to-date with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Smartphones, Google, Yahoo, Bing, & More Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bosmol.com/2009/02/hyphens-vs-underscores.html/comment-page-1#comment-11 Howard | Marketing GA Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:11:09 +0000 http://wp.local/?p=81#comment-11 I have always heard that hyphens are preferable to underscores. As you mentioned, the search engines tend to view the hyphen as a separator between words, so if you have a domain name of "mountain-bike.com" then it would be read like "mountainbike.com" but "mountain_bike.com" would be treated differently. Also, a good rule of thumb is to have no more than one hyphen in the domain name. I have always heard that hyphens are preferable to underscores. As you mentioned, the search engines tend to view the hyphen as a separator between words, so if you have a domain name of "mountain-bike.com" then it would be read like "mountainbike.com" but "mountain_bike.com" would be treated differently. Also, a good rule of thumb is to have no more than one hyphen in the domain name.

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