Comments on: Search Engine Ranking Factors http://seoblackhat.com/2005/09/29/search-engine-ranking-factors/ Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum. Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:07:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: QuadsZilla http://seoblackhat.com/2005/09/29/search-engine-ranking-factors/comment-page-1/#comment-3366 QuadsZilla Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:01:56 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2005/09/28/search-engine-ranking-factors/#comment-3366 Matt on Dash vs Underscore here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/ Matt on Dash vs Underscore here:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

]]> By: tpiddy http://seoblackhat.com/2005/09/29/search-engine-ranking-factors/comment-page-1/#comment-303 tpiddy Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:16:23 +0000 http://seoblackhat.com/2005/09/28/search-engine-ranking-factors/#comment-303 in my experience SERFURLs definitely help in google. I have not had as much luck with them in Yahoo, which seems to crave search terms in the domain name. Matt Cutts has posted about how - is the best seperator and you should not use _ in SERFURLs, i think this proves Google does weight this. Personally I try write my own SERFURLs and ussually change the tense of the keywords or the order, and I drop words like From, Of, To, A etc. in my experience SERFURLs definitely help in google. I have not had as much luck with them in Yahoo, which seems to crave search terms in the domain name.

Matt Cutts has posted about how – is the best seperator and you should not use _ in SERFURLs, i think this proves Google does weight this.

Personally I try write my own SERFURLs and ussually change the tense of the keywords or the order, and I drop words like From, Of, To, A etc.

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