Parenthesis in URL?
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For some reason, we have some URLs on our site with parentheses in them such as somesite.com/used-this(that)What will parenthesis do to the ranking of those pages?
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It's will not have a big impact - while not really common, it's ok to use parenthesis in the url. Just makes the url a bit more difficult to remember, a bit like very long url's. In the example you give - not sure if Google is going to interpret this & that as two different words or that he will think of it as one entity this(that). If this or that are important keywords for you - it's may be better to put a - between this-(that)
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Parenthesis would be ignored by crawlers.
I would try to get them out of there honestly. It doesn't make for a pretty URL harder to type on mobile devices.
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