Best addressing for seo?

randombar

Anyways for those seo experts, what is the best addressing for google?

http://www.ratemypub.ie/cork/the-hole-in-the-wall/

http://www.ratemypub.ie/cork/the+hole+in+the+wall/

http://www.ratemypub.ie/cork/the_hole_in_the_wall/

http://www.ratemypub.ie/cork/the%20hole%20in%20the%20wall/

is it better to have a trailing "/" or should i leave it out?

Have this in the webmaster one but I suppose it should be in here?

cfitz

Of them 4, I would pick the first one. I think Matt Cutts likes to include the trailing slashes, but being consistent about it might be more important than which option you choose.

Trojan

Dashes vs anything else

Go with the dashes (hyphens). Here's the original Cutts post on the subject (2005).

Here's the latest on it (Aug 2007):

Matt Cutts wrote:

If you read Stephan Spencer’s write-up, he says some people thought that underscores are the same as dashes to Google now, and I didn’t quite say that in the talk. I said that we had someone looking at that now. So I wouldn’t consider it a completely done deal at this point. But note that I also said if you’d already made your site with underscores, it probably wasn’t worth trying to migrate all your urls over to dashes. If you’re starting fresh, I’d still pick dashes.

Trailing slashes

If it's a real directory, then good practice is to use the trailing slash (because it saves an extra request to the server). But in these days of dynamic URLs it's probably not a directory so that doesn't matter so much. Personally, I prefer the trailing slash, probably because of the ingrained habit of saving the extra request.

Qs

I've never noticed any difference between underscores and dashes on google despite what Cutts says.

randombar

Ya sites gone from PR3 to PR1 BALLS

Qs

Toolbar PR isn't all that important. I wouldn't worry about it. Focus on where you come in the SERPs.

louie

I will go for the first one as well or third ending with "/" or ".html"
url rewrite is just a small part of SEO but as Tesco say "Every Litle Helps".

rizwan

first redirect all non www or non trailing / to / url so you wont get duplicate content panelty.

and use __ or -- both are same.