Is Double Hyphens in URL Have Negative Effect on SEO?

Posted by Pankaj Sharma
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Jun 15, 2016
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Gangadhar Kulkarni
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Internet Marketing Professional

Double hyphens not affected your SEO directly but it odd for your link visualization. Because link structure is very important factor in SEO If your links structured according to SEO then it gives best results.

Jun 15, 2016 Like it
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Ritesh Satia
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Web Development Expert

No, not at all. There is no any bad effect of 2 hyphens in SEO.

May 19, 2016 Like it
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Jiya Singh (WebHosti...
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Web Hosting Expert@ WebHostingDekho

Double hyphens don't have any negative effect onSEO, but it doesn't look nice to see these kind of url's

May 12, 2016 Like it
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Teach Courses
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Online Education

No hyphens have no effect on seo, the pages rank just fine in Google.

May 11, 2016 Like it
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Alba Masha
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Works at service provider

I don't think so...................

May 6, 2016 Like it
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Maitrix Infotech
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Website Designing, Development & ( SEO/SEM/SMO)

no, no any negative effect. But URL structure doesn't look good.

May 4, 2016 Like it
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Lisa Top
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Product Advisor

Double hyphens not a negative impact on the seo an ranking but can reduce the CTR.

May 4, 2016 2 Likes Like it
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Pinki Pal
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We Make Your Day Remarkable

Hyphens are a very common convention in folder names, and while too many can possibly be a negative in a domain name (it-is-a-really-hyphenated-domain.com for example) they're an accepted practice in folder / file names.

One thing I'd ask though is if someone had a hyphen in their folder name to begin with, would that cause something like /double-----dash--becomes--quintuple--dash/ ? If so I'd ask them to try a little harder to get the dashes down to a minimum, just for the sake of keeping the

May 4, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Anubhav Yadav
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Digital Marketing

Send me the link plz.

May 3, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Anubhav Yadav
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Digital Marketing

I think some problem with coding that why? you checked.

May 3, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Pankaj Sharma
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Digital Marketing Professional

@Anubhav,

My website is dynamic & generated url's with double hyphens automatically. What should I do?

May 3, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Anubhav Yadav
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Digital Marketing

You may be right but my view are different, Actually, i have not used double hyphens, you generally think that it is the part of On page SEO. That is Link Structure, if your site not have proper link structure and internal linking how you get good grade for branding your product that why it is important to fix it.

Thanks.

May 3, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Pankaj Sharma
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Digital Marketing Professional

Thanks Solah & Santosh

May 3, 2016 1 Like Like it
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Solah Aana
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Online Shopping Store

no.. double hyphens don't have any negative effect on seo.. but it doesn't look nice to see these in url's...

May 3, 2016 2 Likes Like it
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