i heard that you can use underscore to increase the amount of youtube tags....ie; "Organonfire_new_left_handed_accoustic_guitar_live_song_grunge_punk_rock_music"...supposedly google / youtube will take everything in the quotes and act as if it is one word, therefore increasing your youtube tags
....anyone care to discuss this because i don't know if it really works!!?!
i heard that you can use underscore to increase the amount of youtube tags....ie; "Organonfire_new_left_handed_accoustic_guitar_live_song_grunge_punk_rock_music"...supposedly google / youtube will take everything in the quotes and act as if it is one word, therefore increasing your youtube tags
....anyone care to discuss this because i don't know if it really works!!?!
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 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.
@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. :)
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i heard that you can use underscore to increase the amount of youtube tags....ie; "Organonfire_new_left_handed_accoustic_guitar_live_song_grunge_punk_rock_music"...supposedly google / youtube will take everything in the quotes and act as if it is one word, therefore increasing your youtube tags
....anyone care to discuss this because i don't know if it really works!!?!
Organonfire 3 weeks ago
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i heard that you can use underscore to increase the amount of youtube tags....ie; "Organonfire_new_left_handed_accoustic_guitar_live_song_grunge_punk_rock_music"...supposedly google / youtube will take everything in the quotes and act as if it is one word, therefore increasing your youtube tags
....anyone care to discuss this because i don't know if it really works!!?!
Organonfire 3 weeks ago
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Organonfire 3 weeks ago
Thanks for that info, was just talking about it today and good to have your verification on it too.
BJ2DESIGN 3 months ago
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.
agapitoflores001 3 months ago
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.
gloyns 8 months ago
I found this one really helpful. I get confused about this sometimes too.
VirtualAssistantv 8 months ago
Good grief guys, this guy is just answering someone's question which is very helpful, less nit picking please! :-0
sweetoak 11 months ago 2
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.
bigal21110 1 year ago
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.
LordManley 1 year ago
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.
ShawnKHall 1 year ago
@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. :)
mhixson1 1 year ago