title: Do spaces in your URL (%20) have a negative impact on SEO?
body: <p>All the articles I Googled on this subject are dated back in 2004-2005.</p>
  
  <p>Basically I am structuring precanned searches, and it is based off of categories the client will input.</p>
  
  <p>Example</p>
  
  <pre><code>content/(term name)/index.htm
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does it matter if I used the raw term with a space, which is converted to %20 in the URL, or should I convert the link to '-' and remove that before querying for results?</p>
  
  <p>I already have it working, but does anyone know if this definitely has a negative impact on SEO and ranking?</p>