Should I use pipes or dashes in my titles?

[agapitoflores001]

I very much agree to this one! Good answer for the question.

[neurodude1]

What about a colon?

[theNewCodingFrontier]

I think it is best to use pipes to separate site names from topics..

siteName.com | Test Page and reserve dashes for other things

[benwebholdings1]

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.

[nalexander21]

are there any delimiter considerations - like using apostrophies in titles?

[veryveryblessed]

Your videos are short and to the point. I like that. Very good information.

[goprocamerahawaii]

awesome! i'm stoked that i found this page, you guys give a lot of useful tips. aloha

[JoesHouses]

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'.

[durnessanomaly]

I've always known this as a pipe: |

[designfans]

I'm pretty sure a pipe is a | which is not an ell "l"

[BruceAchterberg]

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.

[wis3384]

its amazes me when he do his move with his hand....(just kidding)

back to the topic...we usually see websites that uses ">" or ">>" is it also considered the same?

[seoinseattle]

If you have a pipe in the middle of a group of words and someone searches for those word as an exact phrase the version with pipes will not show up, but the version with hyphens will.

[MattCutts]

Good point. In general, I usually prefer hyphens over almost anything else.

[Hinpaki]

+1

but are u sure abt this?

[ShawnKHall]

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.

[TheBoredSwede]

How about » and other similar chars?