Will Spaces And Special Characters Effect Website Ranking Position ?

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    Will Spaces And Special Characters Effect Website Ranking Position?

    If i write two Title tags for my website as below:

    Nokia Phones,Nokia Mobile Phones,Nokia Mobiles Deals Cheap Price
    (1st one having no space between words)

    Nokia Phones, Nokia Mobile Phones, Nokia Mobiles Deals Cheap Price
    (2nd one having space between words)

    It will affect website ranking anyhow on the basis of different search styles like Broad match, Phrase match or Exact Match ?

    Suggestions are welcomed.......
     
    webexpert2u, Jun 9, 2010 IP
  2. seoguy5

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    yes the spaces and special charecters affect the ranking of site. for example if you your web URL is having the dash(-) between two words of the web add. the search bot will recognise it as a whole keyword and after that two more diving the dash hence ultimatley you will get three keyword benefits. e.g. www.car-bus.com/ the keywords are car-bus, car, bus
    but you are chaning the titles hence there will be little affect. the ultimate affect is done to the uRL if you have the special cahracters in that.
     
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  3. blakeney

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    Don't use special characters, because google will insert a combination of characters to replace the special characters.

    If I use a hyphen(-) in my title, google replaces it with %252d. So If I have "Self-esteem" in the title, in a google search, it would look like "Self%252desteem. That just looks ugly, and will confuse the reader.

    These are the characters that I have found to have an effect hyphen, colon, comma and apostrophe. The only characters which don't seem to have any effect are the brackets( ) and the full-stop.
     
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  4. m2webs

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    I advice to you to use - or |

    That is the best option and google will know what the title is about.

    Something like:
    Nokia Phones | Nokia Mobile Phones | Nokia Mobiles Deals | Cheap Price

    Title tag is very important and you should think more about that. You should try to find the best solutions. Do a keyword research and try to mix words to be shorter title...

    Something like:
    Cheap Nokia Phones Deals | Nokia mobile phones price | MyBrand.com

    You will get better solution because you will get keywords like:
    cheap nokia phones, nokia phones deals and others...

    Put your company or website name at the end. People like to see brand. That will improve your conversion rate
     
    m2webs, Jun 9, 2010 IP
  5. vannarith

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    usually you will need to have space between each keyword and your second method is the best "Nokia Phones, Nokia Mobile Phones, Nokia Mobiles Deals Cheap Price". Just remember you need to do what is the general work and other webmaster do, pls do not use anything that is abnormal such as your question stated. As we are not the professional in google or other search engine algorithm, so we cant predict it has value or not.
     
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  6. madno

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    it wont effect your search engine ranking. dont worry.
     
    madno, Jun 9, 2010 IP