Spaces in the URL

[denhatdao]

Is it bad to have spaces in the URL? I'm using a CMS and there's only so much I can do. Some of the URLs will have a space but in the URL appearing on the browser, it'll have +. I've seen websites with similar URLs, . What are your thoughts on this?

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[SAMAC150]

Why would you want to have spaces in the URL??



If you really wanted to separate words, you could always use a dash -



But I just don't see the point, search engines couldn't care less about it

[hoang_ky]

it has spaces because of how the CMS works. I can't really help it but I'm trying to work around it. It just seems like something that hurts SEO since the URL gets messy with the different symbols.

[ngan232]

I may be mistaken, but I believe that some browsers will error as a result of that space when trying to reach that page.

[luckystar1189]

Like you NewComputer, I have encountered problems with some versions of Netscape in regard to this issue.



Shannon