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Hi,

In one of my web proj I want to show movie artists details as their profile. Kindly advise me which type of page URL suits for SEO.


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Which one I need to choose as separator as their name splitter in the case of one which having 2 parts in their name . I mean "-" or "_"

Thanks in advance
Rajeesh

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As asked which separator to use: choose hyphens. As and suggested, hyphen-separated slugs are clearer to users and to search engines. Google’s guidance favors readable, descriptive URLs, and industry references also recommend using hyphens to separate words (Google Search Central - SEO starter guide, Moz - URLs).

Practical checklist for artist profile pages: keep slugs short and lowercase; use hyphens between words; transliterate non-ASCII characters to simple ASCII (e.g., bjork for Björk); avoid query strings or session IDs in main content URLs; prefer a consistent pattern (for example, /artist/slug). When changing an existing scheme, implement 301 redirects from old URLs, update the XML sitemap and internal links, and use rel=canonical on duplicates so ranking signals are preserved.

A cautionary note echoing : search engines evolve, and parsing improves over time, but hyphens remain the most reliable and human-friendly choice. For large sites, test the new pattern on a subset, monitor Google Search Console for crawl/indexing and traffic changes, and only roll out broadly after confirming stable behavior.

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Member Avatar for ankitneuro

I feel first one is better .

Member Avatar for Flower

First url naming is more suitable in comparison to the other for SEO.

Member Avatar for sslguru

Don't know about other search engines but Google treats both the url same and identify separated words too. From user perspective I suggest 1st one.

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