My web programmer recently told me that I no longer have to create urls with hyphens in them as Google can now differentiate keywords in “run-on keyword phrases.” He said Google actually doesn’t like hyphens and we should use them as little as possible. For instance, I use Magento platform for my ecommerce site and when I create a product page, it creates a url using hyphens. For example, let’s say I am selling a rug called Flip Flops Rug, the url it creates is flip-flops-rug. He said I no longer need the hyphens and should instead create the url as flipflopsrug. He said part of the reason is that consumers now-a-days are not typing the “space” when searching as they are in a hurry and they are typing in a run-on-sentence and Google is more sophisticated now that it can separate the keywords without the help of the hyphens.

This is all new to me so I was wondering if you could let me know what I should do. Also, for those product pages that have the hyphens (since this is new to me), should I leave those as is or change all the urls to not include hyphens.