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What does a hyphen do to a Google search?
Bush. Using a hyphen immediately before a word tells Google that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The hyphen should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space.
Should you hyphenate words?
Generally, you need the hyphen only if the two words are functioning together as an adjective before the noun they’re describing. If the noun comes first, leave the hyphen out. This wall is load bearing. You also don’t need a hyphen when your modifier is made up of an adverb and an adjective.
What is the purpose of a hyphen?
Hyphens connect two words to make a single word. Hyphens are also used to attach a prefix to a word. In some situations, hyphens connect adverbs and adjectives to describe a noun. This can be avoided by rewording the sentence.
What are closed compound words?
Closed compound words are two or more words that are joined together as one word. Initially, they may not have been joined together, but over time, many of them have come to be accepted as “real words” in English. For example: notebook. moviegoer.
Is it against the law to use hyphen in url?
If there’s no ruling explicitly stating “don’t use hyphens in your URL”, it’s not going to be against the rules, so it’s fine to use. In this case, the closest resource we have is the former head of Google’s webspam team, Matt Cutts.
Why are hyphens and dashes important in a website?
Historically, search engines couldn’t even parse punctuation. Google’s ability to parse the underscore and the dash, along with a couple of other punctuation marks, made it invaluable for programmers and other nerds looking for specific terminology that used them.
Can a hyphen be used in a subdomain?
Hyphens are allowed in domain names themselves, as well as subdomains and subfolders. www.sub-domain.domain-name.com/sub-folder-1/ is a perfectly valid URL. Underscores are not allowed in domain names, but are allowed in subfolders.
Why does a computer use a hyphen as an underscore?
In fact, typically computers will use the hyphen as a spacer, leading-to-something-like-this. The underscore is a concatenation signifier, meaning that it exists to differentiate words to humans but should not differentiate them to the computer.