I have a question in regards to VSD page Names. If You Put an underline _ between each word of my page names, VSD removes them saying they are illegal characters. My question: If I don't have spaces or _ between words, will the search engines be able to read and understand it. Also this is a problem when page is presented at top of Browser, my visitors will have a hard time reading it as well. I have noticed that most websites on Internet use _ underlines between words in their page names. I have found that I can change the page name and insert underlines between words after page has been complete. Although, when I have done this and tryed to upload, there is an "error".

Any help with this problem would be appreciated,
Thanks
Dustin Miller

I do not see why search engines would care about page names. They look for content, don't they? If you search for a word in a URL then maybe it will not find it. Is that so big a deal?

My question is simple. Why do people have to be so rude. If the search engines do not look for url's or page names then it would'nt matter. If they do, my question was will your pages be looked at the same. If you don't have anything nice to say then don't say it.

After some simple testing I found that:
1 Page Titles can have spaces and underscores (Page Title appears in the body of the html code and I can only presume would be found by a search engine - assuming it is one of the search engines that looks for things like Title and the META tags. Not all of them do, e.g. Google pays more heed to links to other sites and the rating value of the site. See Google.com for a detailed description of how it prioritizes hits)

2 Page Id can have '=', '?' and '+', but not, apparently, '-', '.', '@' nor '_' (the Page Id becomes a part of the URL for the page in question) (I have noticed that google will look at parts of a word, although this most often appears to be different parts of speech of the same root word e.g. look, looking, looked. Whether it would also find /.../lookdog.html in a search for 'dog' I do not know.)

Glad to have been of help

Upon further testing I found that google will find e.g. 'dog', in the url :
http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-magazines/dogworld/
Maybe your issue regarding readability could be addressed using caps, e.g. DogWorld.