which is the best separator on the url

September 2nd, 2008, 10:23 pm

Hello friends which is the best separator on the url.
for example
1. http://www.example.com/tags.asp?tag=hello-world
2. http://www.example.com/tags.asp?tag=hello+world

shortly "-" or "+" is best for seo

Thanks

September 2nd, 2008, 11:20 pm

Hypenated url is the best seperator to indicate the keywords that you want to crawl of search engines.

September 3rd, 2008, 12:10 am

The problem is, i am already using the "+"
http://www.8051projects.info/forum/tag. ... ing+system
and googlebot has crawled it,
is it ok to be kept that
else i want to change it to "-" hyphen

September 3rd, 2008, 2:03 am

I do not know about others, bu I have "_" in own and I have to admit that is very friendly with google as well as with other SE

September 10th, 2008, 10:41 pm

I suggest to use the hypenated one. Plus sign are always used to combine two words in searching while hypen is always used to combine two or more keywords in url.

September 10th, 2008, 11:41 pm

Even google is using "+" in between the keywords.
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=search ... timization

September 12th, 2008, 12:57 am

I Think hyphens is best because Google sees hyphens as separator in URLs and body text.

September 15th, 2008, 9:51 pm

binu_ji wrote:

The problem is, i am already using the "+"
http://www.8051projects.info/forum/tag. ... ing+system
and googlebot has crawled it,
is it ok to be kept that
else i want to change it to "-" hyphen

I think hyphens (-) are the best URL separators. If you have already started using (+) and google bot has crawled it but you have nt got any page rank, then I think you can change the URLs.

September 16th, 2008, 12:58 am

Mostly hyphens (-) are used in urls for better view and rankings because it work as a key phrases.

September 16th, 2008, 9:43 pm

Any of the "-" "+" or "_" will do.

September 16th, 2008, 11:48 pm

- hypen would be the best one, I think. Although it's not mandatory to use hypen only...webmasters use also "_" and "+" as you already have in example 2.