Urgent Attention: -- There is one number (&#2960) coming before the website title. Y?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by eimee, Jul 15, 2008.

  1. #1
    I have seen some of the title of websites includes numbers like &#2960, &#9830, &#9830, &#9830 etc.

    <title>&#2960; Website Development NewAgeSMB is a complete Website Development service provider company offering website development </title>

    Anybody knows why and what is the purpose of using this numbers in to the title tag.
     
    eimee, Jul 15, 2008 IP
  2. Alan Smith

    Alan Smith Active Member

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    hi

    please provide me the link
     
    Alan Smith, Jul 15, 2008 IP
  3. Tim_Myth

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    Not sure what &#2960 is, but &#9830 is the HTML character code for the Black Diamond character. It shows up as a number in the Title bar because the title tag won't convert special character codes into the special characters. Thus, the title of the page might show up as &diams; All about Black Diamonds &diams;, while the page itself shows (black diamond) All about Black Diamonds (black diamond).

    See wikipedia for other such codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
     
    Tim_Myth, Jul 15, 2008 IP
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    Its a tamil (Indian language) letter & its character code is 0B90. It may possible that you have outsourced your work to any Indian Company, who have this code in their Dynamic Web Designing Program.
     
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  5. eimee

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    Please search on Google for wholesale rhinestone belts and first result is
    http://www.besthandbagwholesale.com/

    On that site it is displayed.
     
    eimee, Jul 15, 2008 IP
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    Its nothing serious. It would probably help if those characters were gone (all I see is a box which tells me I don't have the right character set), but it won't really hurt anything. Its the same thing as when you see the hampersand code (&amp;) in a title. A little confusing to the uninitiated, but I doubt it would scare a customer away.
     
    Tim_Myth, Jul 15, 2008 IP