"-" replacement

[lafactory.com]

I would like to use "-" instead of "_" but I have a lot of titles with already "-" inside and they are replaced with "&11" which is not exactly se friendly.
for the moment I put "_" but I hope there is a solution (no aliases, I have at least 2000 articles with "-" inside the title).

[Saka]

You can have hyphen replaced with underscore. Put "-=>_" in URL replacements.

[lafactory.com]

You can have hyphen replaced with underscore. Put "-=>_" in URL replacements.

I tried that, I still have "%11". and to be honnest it's quite silly since I want  "-" and not" _". the simplest way would be, I think, when we put "-" which is now the setting by default in sef advance, your programm does not replace "-" by something else when he finds it.
or a setting to replace "%11" with "-". I think you had such a setting in a older version to replace %11 with something else.

[Saka]

You can't have "-" in articles if you use "-" as word separator. It's as simple as that. That's why when you have "-" as word separator the system is replacing all hyphens that you have in titles with %11.

If you don't want %11 in URLs either use underscore "_" as word separator or have your hyphens replaced with something else (like underscore or whatever, as suggested above).

[lafactory.com]

You can't have "-" in articles if you use "-" as word separator. It's as simple as that. That's why when you have "-" as word separator the system is replacing all hyphens that you have in titles with %11.

If you don't want %11 in URLs either use underscore "_" as word separator or have your hyphens replaced with something else (like underscore or whatever, as suggested above).

I understand that, but I can't change more than 2.000 articles. I hoped it would be possible to change %11 for something else, more elegant. but since it's not possible...

[Saka]

It IS possible. As I said use URL replacements:
-=>whatever_you_want

It is working, if not - you are doing something wrong.

See the attached picture. There you can see how I have replacement -=>_
This way my article called "Software co-existance" will appear as:
/software-co_existance/
instead of
/software-co%11existance/

[lafactory.com]

It IS possible. As I said use URL replacements:
-=>whatever_you_want

It is working, if not - you are doing something wrong.

right... I did something wrong  I tried again and yes, it works now 
thanks

[netfly]

I recommend you don't use underscore to separate words since google will consider only one word.

For example:
red-car (2 words)
red~car (2 words)
red_car (only one word)

[Saka]

On the other hand "co-existance" is one word. So the URL replacement "co_existance" seems appropriate in this case.

[lafactory.com]

I recommend you don't use underscore to separate words since google will consider only one word.

the problem is that I am too good  I use "-" for years directly hardcoded in my titles.
btw, this "-" instead of "_" is overrated.

[netfly]

On the other hand "co-existance" is one word. So the URL replacement "co_existance" seems appropriate in this case.

In this specific case yes, for sure 

[GabyZ]

I think that there's a problem with the replacement, the old urls are indexed with '%11', google will find new urls with '_' but the old urls with '%11' are not 301 redirected to the new with '_', so this could be considered duplicate content.

How we can add the 301 redirect?

[Saka]

That's why it's important to plan your site from beginning.

You can not add redirects like that with SEF Advance but you can add them in .htaccess if needed.