By Tony Young on Thursday, 09 March 2017
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In all of the SEO grading tools that I use I get flags for the underscores in the image urls when using the "thumbnails" element to create a gallery in a post. Google does not like underscores in urls. Only dashes. http://www.allaccesscoach.com/images/easyblog_articles/9/b2ap3_large_Eric-Church-Breaks-Record-2.jpg

The underscores are added in the easyblog folder structure part. Is there a way to change this or is there a fix for this in the works?
Currently that was not possible to convert to use dash because all the existing image file name already convert it to use underscore.

May i know did it show up any warning or error if the page contain those underscore link in SEO grading tools?

Based on what i checked this thread from Google https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/76329?hl=en , they only mentioned recommend to use dash for the URL.
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Thursday, 09 March 2017 14:29
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Yes, if google recommends it, that is what we need to do. I would delete and reload each of the galleries if there was a way for it to use the dash instead of underscore.
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Friday, 10 March 2017 00:25
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Hello Tony,

It's not entirely possible to change this behavior because file names are automatically prefixed with underscores. Anyway the structure that was generated, makes sense as it is a distinct separator between underscore and words.

For instance, take the following file name,

b2ap3_large_Eric-Church-Breaks-Record-2.jpg

The underscore portions are used internally by the system and ideally it shouldn't be grouped up as a "word" in SEO. Therefore if Google ignores the "b2ap3_large_" portion because it uses underscore, it's perfectly fine as you want them to index "Eric Church Breaks Record 2"
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Friday, 10 March 2017 13:28
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