搜索引擎优化专家Jim Westergren在2005年从严格的搜索引擎优化角度对此进行了测试，得出的结论是+(+)实际上是最好的单词分隔符。然而，这似乎并不合理，可能是由于搜索引擎算法的错误。对于可读性和SEO，他推荐使用-(破折号)。

就我个人而言，我会避免使用about-us或about_us，而使用about。

一些较老的web主机和DNS服务器实际上在解析url的下划线时存在问题，所以这可能是这些约定的一部分。

下划线替换不允许有空格的地方。破折号(连字符)可以是单词的一部分，因此将单词与已经包含连字符的连字符连接起来是丑陋的/令人困惑的。

Bad:

/low-budget-movies

好:

/low-budget_movies

URL中允许有空格，所以你可以在链接中使用“/about us”(尽管这将被编码为“/about%20us”)。但老实说，这永远是个人偏好，所以这里没有真正的答案。

我会按照惯例，破折号可以出现在单词中，所以空格应该转换为下划线。

I'm more comfortable with underscores. First of all, they match in with my regular programming experience of variable_names_are_not-subtraction, second of all, and I believe this was mentioned already, words can have hyphens, but they do not ever have underscores. To pick a really stupid example, "Nation-state country" is different from "nation state country". The former translates something like "the land of nation-states" (think "this here is gun country! Best move along, y'hear?"), whereas the latter looks like a list of sometime-synonyms. http://example.com/nation-state-country/ doesn't appear to mean the same as http://example.com/nation-state_country/, and yet, if hyphens are delimiters/"space"s in addition to characters in words, it can. The latter seems more clear as to the actual purpose, whereas the former looks more like that list, if anything.