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Hi Nicholas, Option 2 is better because the hyphens actually separate words, and so robots (like Googlebot) read them as individual words rather than alloneword. Matt Cutts video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcSFsQyct8 on underscores vs. hyphens (not quite your question, but it appears that underscores are 'read' by Google in the same way as your first example. All the best, Amelia

Good response Jesse.

Cool, Nicholas, thanks for the resources! Yeah, I think your 3 routes might be a bit of overkill, though I don't think they hurt you. Though I would not block them in robots.txt since this only prevents crawling but not indexing of these URLs. So my advice is to go with step 1 & 2.

Hi Nicholas, Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. We no longer provide Google AdWords information because they have restricted our access to their API, so now we show Bing search volume data. You shouldn't be seeing any reference to Google AdWords on the page any longer so either that is an older screenshot or you will need to clear your cache and cookies to update the page and show the Bing search volume data. When I log into your account, I do see the Keyword Research tool is correctly showing that the search volume does come from Bing but, unfortunately, Bing does not support data for South Africa. I'm afraid for this location, you would need to access the Google AdWords tool directly here: https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool as Bing cannot provide data for you locale. I apologize for the inconvenience this causes. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Chiaryn