Blind Five Year Old from San Francisco, CA asks:
“Does Google have any suggestions (or data) on the impact of pipes versus dashes in the title tag?”
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Finally, that dilemma solved. Thanks a lot
I am starting to notice Ted Talks using the pipe or bar in all their videos. Maybe that can help some people. I think I will switch my colons to all pipes soon.
thanks! helped me out
What about colons?
you can use does';t matter what you're using either dash OR separator.
Hi, what about colon? I'd like to use it cos of sense
super helpful brotha. thanks!!
What about a colon?
I think there is another answer to this question….
dashes win with usability in the sense that every one is going to know ho to use a dash and will be able to easily type it in a browser and they will ofcourse see it.
pipes will have better click through bc they are less intrusive or alienaiting. Dashes are tacky looking, so are pipes but pipes go over looked.
use pipes….
actually use dashes.
ha.
Your videos are short and to the point. I like that. Very good information.
A pipe symbol is the verticle bar. It is the shift- key. is the backslash. That key is right above the "Enter" key.
So, shift-backslash will give you the "pipe'.
I'm pretty sure a pipe is a | which is not an ell "l"
What are "pipes"?
And these (e.g. these: "»") are chevrons, right?
I know what a hyphen is ("-"), and I know what an en dash ("") is and what an em dash ("—") is, but I've never heard of pipes before.
Good point. In general, I usually prefer hyphens over almost anything else.
The biggest issue with parameter separators in the title is that some characters are not supported in various operating systems for the file system, so when a user bookmarks the page (which in some situations will then sync to a webservice), the bookmark will be renamed. This effectively replaces many characters with either a dash or completely remove the character. In most cases, pipes and chevrons are completely removed, while dashes, commas and other characters are preserved as intended.