Some notes: - Eye-tracking research shows users spend nearly 25% of their time in search results looking at the URLs, so it's clearly part of their decision-making process, not just helpful for search engines. Jakob Nielsen posted this research in 2007; my guess is this number would not go down and might even go up, as users become more savvy. - Most SEO and usability people agree that hyphens are preferred to underscores. A few believe neither should be used. - Consistency is certainly helpful if you expect to have returning visitors - once they learn your site rules, they'll be better able to remember/guess pages, or recognize them in search results - If there are already underscores in URLs, the htaccess file can be edited to convert these to hyphens.
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