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Use when auditing URL structures for word separator format, generating slugs from titles, or planning a URL migration from underscores or spaces to hyphens with appropriate redirects.

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# Use hyphens in URLs

Google's search systems interpret hyphens in URLs as word boundaries, enabling it to match the URL against individual keyword queries. Underscores join words into a single token, meaning `/seo_practices` is seen as one word 'seopractices' rather than two separate words 'seo' and 'practices'.

## Quick Reference

- Use hyphens (`-`) to separate words in URLs — Google treats hyphens as word separators, underscores as part of the word
- `/best-seo-practices` is better than `/best_seo_practices` or `/bestseopractices`
- Changing existing URLs from underscores to hyphens requires 301 redirects to preserve link equity

## Check

Inspect the URL path segment of each page. Flag any URL that contains: (1) Underscores (`_`) as word separators (e.g., `/best_practices`). (2) Spaces encoded as `%20` or `+` in path segments. (3) Mixed separators in the same URL (e.g., `/best-practices_guide`). Report the count of non-hyphenated URLs by category.
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