Google search shows spaces as - why? 
Author: Lawrence Lander
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My online shop www.antiligsolutions.com is not ranking well yet. I submitted both 'www.' URL and without www. How do I prioritize and avoid duplication?
In Google search, second line description you get for instance: antiligsolutions.com/doorhandles & locks.html Why does it put instead of a space? Is this slowing down search rankings?
Should I put a hyphen between words?
Lawrence Lander
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" " is what is inserted instead of a space
Hello Lawrence,
Google produce a comprehensive guide to search engine optimisation, which you can view/download at the following link:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
As regards your first question (prioritising www over non-www or vice-versa), you can do this in Google Search Console:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Kind regards,
Paul
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I put a hyphen between all words. Previously in search results it showed % 20 instead of each space
Hello Lawrence,
do not use space in the file names. If you add space then it's automatically converted to the ASCII code of blank space which is .
If you don't want to have then replace it with a character example - or _
Many thanks!