Hi, i would like to know views and opinion on using symbols in the title tag comma (,) vertical bar (|) & (ampersand) thanks sally
Haii Sally Gomes .. to use a comma, vertical bar (|) and & (ampersand) to give the tag be at the space after these signs .. because it is very effective and is bagis of SEO tricks ... Thanks you and maybe this could help ...
hello Title tag is very important for seo because these are keywords that the visitors look first .comma,space and vertical bar are important to high light key word and also search bot easy read .
You can use any of the mentioned parameters in title tag. But please donot over use it. The best example would be the usage of & and | instead of the word 'and'
All punctuation from the <title> (and link text for that matter) typically get stripped before it's evaluated for relevant keywords. So it shouldn't matter which punctuation character you use to separate your keyword phrases. I used to use the pipe symbol ('|') but prefer to use hyphens ('-') now.
There is no much difference whether you use pipe(|), hyphens(-) OR comma(,). I prefer to use any of them according to the the sentence you are creating...
actually as per my knowledge that "Comma" is right symbol in title tag because if use search in Google that By mistake he can use comma in search quarry. That's why i think that Comma is perfect symbol in Title.
Like canonical, I prefer to use a hyphen, but may use different punctuation on rare occasions where the number of characters becomes an issue. <title>Example.Com - Red Widgets</title> <title>Furry Red Widgets: Lowest Online Prices from Example.Com</title> I have seen people play games with special characters in the title tag which "might" draw some attention in the SERP's (if they display correctly, or at all) <title>♥ Red Furry Widgets: The Perfect Valentine's Gift from Example.Com</title>
It really makes no difference. As long as you are using some type of punctuation/special character (, . : ; - | & #) Google (and likely most othersearch engines) will see them the same. So: <title>Keyword Phrase1 - Keyword Phrase2 - Keyword Phrase3</title> <title>Keyword Phrase1 | Keyword Phrase2 | Keyword Phrase3</title> <title>Keyword Phrase1 , Keyword Phrase2 , Keyword Phrase3</title> <title>Keyword Phrase1 : Keyword Phrase2 : Keyword Phrase3</title> <title>Keyword Phrase1 / Keyword Phrase2 / Keyword Phrase3</title> Are all going to likely be seen as: <title>keyword phrase1 keyword phrase2 keyword phrase3</title> once the <title> has been normalized. By normalized I mean all punctuation/special characters removed and converted to lower case. There are strong hints in Google's Webmaster Tools that this actually happens behind the scenes before link text, titles, etc. are evaluated for keywords. For example, log into WMT, navigate to the Your site on the web -> Links to your site page and click on the Anchor text tab. This page shows you what link text Google is seeing in your inbound links. Start expanding them and looking for ones that expand to multiple items. You'll notice that: +keyword1 keyword2 might expand to something like: Keyword1 - Keyword2 Keyword1 Keyword2 Keyword1 keyword2 keyword1 keyowrd2 So all of the above link texts are interpretted as keyword1 keyword2 (lower case) once they are normalized. This is why searches at Google are case insensitive. Most sites will eventually get a link where the link text is the actual URL like: When this happens, what shows as the anchor text is http www example com mypage html because all punctuation/special characters are removed / . in this example).
They all work just fine. We even use plus + signs and equal = signs at times... Currently our title has a vertical | bar in it and we're being indexed just fine and have high page rank.
Sally asking for views, as you can see, will draw a wide range of responses so it's probably more helpful if you can clarify the perspective you're wanting views from. From the search engines perspective, Canonical has given a fantastic, and accurate description of how the engines treat the special characters including punctuation. For a human perspective though, you really need to test different things and find out what your market is most responsive to. I personally find that in the niches I work in that the pipe ( | ) is best for segmenting the title to provide snippets of information via keyword grouping. I find that it draws the right amount of attention and a good number of clicks as compared to other variations I've tried. Having said that, the consumers of each market/niche will likely respond quite differently and so you should test different formats and go with what brings the greatest result.
I fully agree with this, it doesnt matter which symbol you use in the title tag, it's all going to be stripped and normalized anyways, but if it should look visually presentable then I will go with the space and the vertical bar.
Thank you Canonical for the clear explanation. This was a question I had too. How about the underscore? Does it make a difference?
^^ What he said ^^ Honestly, pretty much all of them mean the same thing as far as google is concerned.
I think using symbols in tags make it more effective. It also helps to bring traffic to a site. The title tag should be kept between 60 - 90 characters in length. In search results, Google currently displays only approximately 65 characters of the title, some engines display more.