Should we use & or and in our url's?
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Example:
/Zambia/kasanka-&-bangweulu or
/Zambia/kasanka-and-bangweulu
which is the better url from the search engines point of view?
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from a HTML point of view i think you should never use "&", it should always be "&".
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Hi
The second, sure.
Ciao
Maurizio
p.s. Normally, this character ( &) is used to concatenate the variables and not the words
Ciao
Maurizio
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