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    • tribes
      tribes last edited by

      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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      • malecce
        malecce last edited by

        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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        • jonny512379
          jonny512379 last edited by

          from a HTML point of view i think you should never use "&", it should always be "&".

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