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question on dollar signs in urls - Okay from SEO perspective?


Jeffro

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It's easy enough to remove my $ signs, but for the site I'm building, there are ads that all have prices built into the title.  Is it bad to leave the $ sign on the url?  I actually prefer the look but if it's going to hurt me from an SEO perspective, I'll remove. 

 

To me.. 

new-wood-stove-$125.html 

looks better than

new-wood-stove-125.html 

 

but... I'm not asking about preference.. just if you guys think it would hurt in any way?

Thoughts?

$ is a reserved character in the URI specification, technically as long as its not being used as such there is no problem in using it in a URI.  $ was/is a delimiter in the gopher/wais schema.  As for being SEO friendly though, its not really, the general thought behind URL encoders is if its not being used as it should then it gets escaped and turned into '%24'.  Site indexing also looks for simple patterns in URLs if you have some URLs with dollar signs and others without, you'll mess the the predictive algorithms.

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