SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is basically fancy words for getting good results in search engines. Anyone who has built their own website to be optimized by google has heard of the hyphen or underscore preference.

SEO experts would recommend that a URL contained hyphens rather than underscores. The reason for this is that google looked at hyphen's in a URL as seperate words, whereas underscored would be one word.

For example, a URL with /nicole_richie/ would look as "nicole_richie" to google, whereas /nicole-richie/ would look as "nicole richie". But is this true?

Well, its FINALLY official that this simply is not the case. Both hyphens and underscores are seen as seperate words to google, yahoo, ask, and MSN. I had just read this earlier today and had to make a post about it.

So the next time someone tries to tell you to use hyphens rather than underscores, tell them they are full of shit. :)

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