Special Characters in Meta Tag Title?

[fromrachel]

Hi there, have you ever used special characters in your meta tag title (& | - # ), I want to know it can affect to ranking for keywords on the title?
your answers will be more helpful for me

 

[DPrat]

Hi there, have you ever used special characters in your meta tag title (& | - # ), I want to know it can affect to ranking for keywords on the title?
your answers will be more helpful for me

As far as Google Algorithm is concerned, special characters like "|", "_" and "-" only matters. "|" and "-" act as separators and "_" (underscore) between two words meant as same word. It is better to use "|" and "-" in Title tags. For meta description it is suggested not to use them.

 

[vaneetagoswami]

Well we can say that "|" and "-" are more popular and often used by everyone.

 

[fromrachel]

fromrachel

what about "&" charater ? I saw W3 validator doesn't like this

 

[BloodMaster]

You can use "|" and "-" to seprate two different keywords and yes I agree with Dpart that you can use"_" to merger two different word as one and many optimizer are using the same special symbol too. But if you war worry about "&" and other tags than in my personal opinion I suggest you to avoid that symbols in title tags. Its good in use but in some extent it won't prove benefited for your website..