{"id":4912,"date":"2007-07-30T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/google-now-interprets-underscores-as-word-seperators\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:32:30","slug":"google-now-interprets-underscores-as-word-seperators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/google-now-interprets-underscores-as-word-seperators\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Now Interprets Underscores As Word Separators!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkinternetmarketing.com\/images\/headshots\/chris_thumb.jpg\" title=\"Christopher Kata\" alt=\"Christopher Kata\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"72\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"78\" \/>Recently Matt Cutts announced that Google is going to interpret the &#8220;_&#8221; as a word separator in URL file naming. So what you ask? Well up until now a file on your website named &#8220;sun_screen_awnings.html&#8221; looked like this too Google &#8220;sunscreenawnings&#8221; and you did not get any credit for it because that word means nothing. Yahoo! and other search engines read your file as &#8220;sun screen awnings&#8221; and you get credit for this as a keyword. Of course not a lot of credit, but some indeed. Now that Google is interpreting the underscore as a word separator you don&#8217;t need to worry about renaming and 301 redirecting all of your files!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently Matt Cutts announced that Google is going to interpret the &#8220;_&#8221; as a word separator in URL file naming. So what you ask? Well up until now a file&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}