How bad is using Dashes in H1 tags

I used a dash in my H1 tag. I heard that the search engines think of it a question mark. How detrimental is it to the keyword phrase in the h1 tag or my SEO goals in general?

 

Using a dash on an H1 tag is like having sex without protection

 

please explain Eyes.

 

when you make love unprotected you can get a girl pregnant.

when you use h1 tag with dashes, you can get the SE spider pregnant hehe

 

moe detailed explanation please

 

That doesn't make any sense at all, like what aaron says. Using dashes won't make search engines think your spamming, although I don't see why someone would do that - it - just - won't - make - any - difference.

 

I would think search engines knew a dash was a dash, and that dashes are important in titles.

For example, "eyes2005 - Lost the Plot?"

I believe worrying about dashes in H1 tags is insignificant, I wouldn't worry. Search engines despite what they throw up in their results sometimes, are prettty clever.

However dashes in titles are used heavily in articles that are targetting keywords because you can't always create a meaningful title with the keywords in without using dashes, but I can't see there being any penalty.

Using Dashes in Titles - Penalising Webmasters?

I believe the answer is nah. He he.

Pete

 

I have used dashes before. As far as I know, it does not cause any problem at all. The pages of mine that use dashes rank well.

 

Why would it cause a problem? Think more about your visitors and less about the SE's.

 

maybe think too much, uh?

 

I think used dash is not bad effect at all. How could it get your site penalized? Used - in all places look are the same, just separate the words. IF used Dash in H1 tag is bad so used them in Title or url might look bad too

 

No, a dash won't matter on your <h1> content. You can use it. Don't worry.

 

exactly, how could they penalize a site for using a common symbol used in descriptive content

 

having a - or not makes no difference