: Is URL consistency important? Can I have multiple URL styles on one website? I have a website in which the URL structure is mysite.com/Anything_Here/And_Something_Here. I would like to have another

@BetL925

Having different styles of URLs for different parts of your website is not an SEO problem. As long as your URLs uniquely identify content and are not spammy, they are fine with search engines.

The only place that I could see this becoming an issue is if you tried to apply rules to clean up your URLs. In that case you might need to write different rules for the different sections of your website rather than apply a single rule site-wide.

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@Lee4591628

Using more than one URL structure in a website may not create a big issue unless you have 100% duplicate contents on all the pages. But URL structure with 'dashes' is always better than 'underscores'

Matt Cutts stated in his old post that URL structure with 'dashes' would be more preferable than 'underscores'.

He gave an example for his statement:


If you have a url like word1_word2, Google will only return that page
if the user searches for word1_word2 (which almost never happens). If
you have a url like word1-word2, that page can be returned for the
searches word1, word2, and even “word1 word2″.

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