Choose your titles wisely for better URLs

If your CMS generates URLs from page titles, choose those titles carefully. The slug becomes part of the URL and search engines use it as a ranking signal.

Use hyphens to separate words, not underscores. Google treats my-page-title as three distinct words but reads my_page_title as one mangled string.

Good:  /blog/choose-your-titles-wisely-for-better-urls
Bad:   /blog/choose_your_titles_wisely_for_better_urls

Keep titles short and descriptive. Avoid stop words where you can — “the”, “and”, “of” take up space in a URL without adding meaning. And watch out for special characters; they get mangled into ugly encoded strings.