Effective URL's

hello,

do spider's read %20's as spaces?

if they do, wouldnt

http://seochat.com/seo%20services.html

be better than

http://seochat.com/seo-services.html

would they both be weighted the same? the latter before the former? or visa versa?

Sounds like a good question for the Gods of Google eh!

I would think you'd do better with a simple hyphen, underscores are often not read wherein your word simply runs together in the engines eye, but hypens do keep your words seperated in most cases. %20 Is anybody's guess! Because I don't no of anyone who's registered an address inclusive of that.

i dont know why anyone would want to use %20's in their urls.
the ones is see...i look at and say to myself...that goofball has a space in the file name.....oops.

please note...
i did a google search for 'web%20design':

http://www.google.com/search?num=10...G=Google+Search

the results tell the story...
google ignores the '%'.
so it only sees the 'web' and '20design'.
so the second word is messed up as a keyword.
google never sees the word 'design'.
now the final question would be does google process the url text before or after parsing the url.

either way...why mess with '%20' when the hyphen gets the job done so nicely without taking any chances.


:-)

I don't know about Google but our local SE's do not follow the complete URL it cuts it off at the space! Not Good!