Permalink: Underscores or Dashes? October 18, 2005
Posted by JalanSutera.com™ in Blog.trackback
Sometimes I wonder, which is better for permalink: underscores or dashes. William Pramana, the numero uno weblogger, uses_underscores_for_his_permalinks. Maybe, it is because he uses MT for his weblog engine. The corporate blog of SixApart also uses underscores for their title link.
But Enda Nasution, another- leading-blogger-uses- dashes-for-his-title-of-every-entry-in-his- weblogger-although-he-uses-MT. On the other hand, most of Planet Terasi inhabitants who manage their weblog using WordPress always use dashes for their permalink.
This make me ask you. Which is better for permalink: dashes or underscores? Please tell me.
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Blog ini milik Pujiono, seorang pekerja media yang tinggal di Tangerang. Dia bukanlah seorang wartawan. Dia juga bukanlah orang yang punya krenteging ati untuk secara teratur menuliskan pikiran dan ide lewat blog. 
dulu pernah baca dmana gtu, katanya bagusan pakai dash.. alasannya.. *lupa*
For me use? underscores more enjoy :)
Jauhari, you said you prefer underscores to dashes. But why do you use dashes in your blog?
gw sih lebih prefer – karena untuk menghindari efek link M$ Word, karena link berikut ambigu:
http://anu.com/a_b.html http://anu.com/a%20b.html
ya..! kalau link di garis bawahi, underscore gag keliatan, sedangkan dash .. apik-apik wae
dash aja, underscore bikin susah terlihat
bagusan dash aja deh kayaknya.
soalnya blognya friendster yg suka pake underscore kadang nggak bisa di-browse (nggak tau konflik dg proxy ato browsernya).
dashes are better for search engines (at least for google)
daripada under scores gw pilih dash, sebab kalo under scores sering gak keliatan
Here is an explanation about dashes vs underscore.
I personally prefer dashes because it’s easier to read and search engine prefer dash. My blog still use underscore because I did not install the mt plugin required to turn underscore into dash.
It is possible to set your permanent link setting to dash in Movable Type 3.2. But I haven’t upgraded to MT 3.2 yet.
I prefer dash but that’s by personal preferences. For William Prana and Zootropo , where did you find that dash is more search engine friendly than underscore?
And for fahmi: underscore in Friendster is often use for the domain name which is a violation to international domain regulation (is there any?). But underscore usage for a folder is legitimate.