: It depends from what you want to express with the URL: On the surface, it’s easy to believe that hyphens and underscores are treated the same by search engines. However, this is not

@Berumen354

It depends from what you want to express with the URL:


On the surface, it’s easy to believe that hyphens and underscores are treated the same by search engines. However, this is not the case.

In short, Google treats a hyphen as a space (or word separator). So, while you may not be able to add a traditional space, it still appears this way in the eyes of Google.

An underscore, on the other hand, is considered a “word joiner.” Sticking with the example above, miami_real_estate_agent is the same as miamirealestateagent to Google.

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