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jdotchon Joined: May 09, 2006 # Posts: 2	Posted: 05/09/2006 02:57 pm My first post with a couple of questions about url/web address. We have blank spaces in the URL, is this good or bad practice? We will have the option to use a "-" character in a months time when they upgrade website software, so can replace the blank space, is this better? In the html source code the url contains blank spaces, but after I click on it the URL in internet explorer address bar is converted "XYZ%ABC/", the blank spaces are converted to '%', will this have any impact when the Crawlers/Bots index our site, and how/if will this affect google pagerank? Thanks is advance for any answers, Julian. (Copy Shortcut)

g1smd Moderator Joined: Jul 28, 2002 # Posts: 10060 Website	Posted: 05/09/2006 03:10 pm Never use spaces ( ) or underscores (_) in URLs. They cause a lot of problems. Make sure that you always use dots (.) or hyphens (-) to separate the words. (Copy Shortcut)

etech_racheal Joined: Mar 14, 2006 # Posts: 105	Posted: 05/19/2006 02:52 am Do not use underscores in URL. Always use dots or hyphens in URL. Hyphens are used to seperate two words. (Copy Shortcut)

jdotchon Joined: May 09, 2006 # Posts: 2	Posted: 05/31/2006 11:08 am Thanks for the answers. One more question, does having a double slash in the url, example below, create any problems, i think this is stopping bots/crawlers looking at these pages? (Copy Shortcut)

philh Joined: Sep 14, 2001 # Posts: 3050 Website	Posted: 05/31/2006 11:13 am jdotchon - Please put links in your profile as per our TOS - Thanks (Copy Shortcut)

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