Is comma a separator in a title tag?
Hi Matt. More and more websites started using comma (,) as a separator in title tag (less pipes or dashes). Is comma really a separator OR if it’s better for the visitors it’s better for SEO ? Thanks ! Adrian, Europe Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: www.google.com Want your question to be answered on a video like this? Follow us on Twitter and look for an announcement when we take new questions: twitter.com More videos: www.youtube.com Webmaster Central Blog: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com Webmaster Central: www.google.com
Thanks for that info, was just talking about it today and good to? have your verification on it too.
This is very useful specially when making searches in Google. I? have tried using different kings of separator and I have proved that what he said was right.
Generally you’ll? find that people use commas to separate words as it uses less characters and you can fit more keywords into a page title. As a rule of thumb I format my page titles as ‘main keyword – nice description of article | site name’. It’s a nice, natural format and includes the site/brand name to ensure it is unique.
I found this? one really helpful. I get confused about this sometimes too.
Good grief guys, this guy is? just answering someone’s question which is very helpful, less nit picking please! :-0
omg the background!!!! Btw I think Google should start pushing for phrases in title tags not words. That way we won’t? need a separator.
@ShawnKHall He’s just saying Google won’t treat it as a separator, not that it’s inherently bad. If I had to guess why, I’d say the reason is regular expression engines lump in underscores with letters and digits, and that Google makes use of regex engines in its search. A “w”? in a regular expression, the “word character”, matches letters, digits, and underscores, and I assume this makes it harder (computationally) to treat underscores as a separator. Again, this is just a guess.
Dear Matt,
I appreciate that it is unusual to describe oneself? as originating from a continent, rather than a specific country but, given that you describe yourself as American, is it not rather a case of the pot calling the kettle black to rib the poor fellow?
Yours Sincerely,
Manley
P.S. I never kissed the editor of the radio times.
Matt Cutts, in absence of facts or testing, hating on underscores again. I guess the billion+ results at Google for [intitle:_] aren’t really there.
Not that I think it’s? a good idea to use an underscore in the *title* of a page as a separator – it’s not (readability foliks!), but you sure do seem to have a chip on your shoulder about underscores.