Why the underline in the URL is changed into characte like hr

[tim wallace]

Call for help. The template of my site is Zen Cart, The correct suffix of URL address is "-c-3_41_48.html", but in the Google indexed pages, it is changed into "-c-3hr41hr48.html", Why this happeded? Why the underline in the URL is changed into characte like hr. Thanks a lot firstly.

[buzinessware]

quite surprising i haven't seen this ever before

[mjtaylor]

Me neither. Now two of us haven't helped the OP.

[Tiggerito]

Could you provide an example of the original page and how to find the dodgy search result?

[MrGamm]

You could try comparing the cached copy of the page in the search results to the one which you are looking at. Maybe by odd chance you are serving different pages to Google than the ones you are looking at through the browser.


This command will show you every page that is indexed in your site.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.yourdomain.com

This is a good utility that will masquerade as the Google Bot, so you can see what it would see in some cases.

http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/...-headers-tool/

Another thing that might help is registering with Google Webmaster Tools to see if they can give you any additional information about the website.

Other than that, it could just be something specific to ZenCart... maybe asking inside their support forums.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/index.php

[netman4ttm]

Well an underline isn't an allowed character in a url

[DaveSawers]

Well an underline isn't an allowed character in a url

Since when? They're not permitted in domain names, but in the file name, you can use anything you want (as long as you escape some special characters appropriately). Underline does not need to be escaped.

[Kendroma]

amazing how quickly these forums are indexed though!

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q...fe96124a2b2cae