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Old 03-22-2008, 12:45 AM 20% in each new webpage address.
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Hi everyone!, I don't even know if I have asked this question in the right category, as I am not good with webmaster language. I have a website which I have made in dreamweaver, about a year ago, and am pretty happy with the outcome. But I have added a few new pages in the last week and was adding to the existing sitemap and have realised that in all of the new pages where there is a space in the address of each page there are percentages, would you know how to fix this? Thankyou so much in advance!....kind regards Kim

http://www.kimfowlerstainedglass.com.au

P.S. Also I was fiddling around with it the otherday and for some reason, the gaps between the LHS buttons have got larger, i had them previously closer togeather, is there anything that I should look out for in the code to change this?
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Old 03-22-2008, 12:53 AM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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the %20, as far as I know, cannot be removed. obviously you can't have a space in the URL. It's much better to not have any spaces in teh file names, anyway. As far as the buttons, without looking at your code I can't be sure (i'm too lazy to check right now) but It might be a cell-padding or spacing issue. IMO, it looks fine the way it is and owuld be a llittle too cluttered if they wre closer toghert. But that's just my opinion.
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Old 03-22-2008, 04:13 AM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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would you know how to fix this?
Yep,
don't have filenames with spaces

You shouldn't really have lots of hidden links to a "sales pitch" page either BTW. They don't really help you know, because it's the anchor text that is the most useful bit of links.
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Old 03-22-2008, 09:56 AM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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An easy fix is to replace the spaces with the underscore character _ to get rid of the %20 in your URL's.

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Old 03-22-2008, 01:14 PM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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Actually, the underscore isn't a good idea either, people often don't see the underscore. Better to use dashes.
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Old 03-22-2008, 09:34 PM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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Actually, the underscore isn't a good idea either, people often don't see the underscore. Better to use dashes.
Hmmm. I seem to recall seeing my URL's with dashes transformed in a similar way to the space issue (ie. the dash was replaced with %something) but hadn't seen this with the underscore. Am I wrong about this?

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Old 03-24-2008, 09:56 PM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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dashes don't have to be replaced. actually dashes and underscores are the only special characters that don't get replaced in filenames. domain names can even have dashes.
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Old 03-25-2008, 01:30 AM Re: 20% in each new webpage address.
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Use either underscores or dashes. Search spiders crawl links like these better too because if you can use several-words-to-describe, the search engine gets an idea what the link is about as well.

Just another SEO tip.
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