Page Title

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Carol V.

I have read on this newsgroup that for SEO it is best to separate words in a
file name with a hyphen as opposed to an underscore. What about the "page
title". Would you enter it with spaces, hyphen, or underscore? Or does it
even matter.

1. Page title

2. Page-title

3. Page_title

Carol
 
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Tom Willett

You leave the spaces in the page title.
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|I have read on this newsgroup that for SEO it is best to separate words in
a
| file name with a hyphen as opposed to an underscore. What about the "page
| title". Would you enter it with spaces, hyphen, or underscore? Or does
it
| even matter.
|
| 1. Page title
|
| 2. Page-title
|
| 3. Page_title
|
| Carol
|
|
 
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Paul S. Wolf

The "Page Title" is just text which appears at the top of the browser
window ( i.e. My Page Title : Internet Explorer 7.0), so spaces are
fine. The title in the HTML appears as follows in the <head> section:

<title>Page Title</title>

The FILE NAME, which is independent to the title, should be all lower
case or numbers, underscores, or hyphens, with no spaces or other
special characters, such as my-page.htm. Hyphens and underscores are
both fine, but I prefer hyphens only to ensure they are visible if the
hyperlink is underlined (as is usual).


Paul S. Wolf, P.E., FITE mailto:p[email protected]
 
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Carol V.

Thanks. That was what I was looking for. In another thread a while back,
they stated that google saw the hyphens better as spaces than underscores.
You make a good point about the hyperlink being underlined. I never thought
of that.

Carol
 
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Carol V.

Also, forgot to ask. Does it matter if my folders such as "Images" are
capitalized? Also what about the images file names such as
"My-Photo-Dog.jpg"

Carol
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Only matter if your site is hosted on Unix/Linux where Images and images are consider to be two
different names.

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