Do spaces in your URL (%20) have a negative impact on SEO

seo

All the articles I Googled on this subject are dated back in 2004-2005.

Basically I am structuring precanned searches, and it is based off of categories the client will input.

Example

content/(term name)/index.htm

Does it matter if I used the raw term with a space, which is converted to %20 in the URL, or should I convert the link to '-' and remove that before querying for results?

I already have it working, but does anyone know if this definitely has a negative impact on SEO and ranking?

Best Answer

No impact on SEO. A - just looks nicer, that's all.

You'd use %20 if you needed to preserve the exact term including a proper space when you read it back from the URL. Probably you don't.

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