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EyesCoffee
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
# Posts: 204
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Posted: 2004-May-17 09:00
Hi all,
What does everybody think about using special symbols in page title's to gain more visibility? For instance if I was searching for a maths tutorial page would you click on the link with title "Maths tutorial" or the link with "sqrt Maths Tutorial sqrt" (where the sqrt is the square root symbol sign).
I have trialed the use with a couple of low ranking pages just in case google/yahoo doesn't like them, and google doesn't seem to mind at all. Still waiting for yahoo to re-spider the page.
Does anybody use them in high ranking pages and noticed an increase of traffic? My pages were ranked 1 a month ago and now they're all around 3 to 4. So I don't want to do anything stupid too quickly.
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d_stew
Joined: Apr 12, 2004
# Posts: 128
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Posted: 2004-May-18 15:44
EyesCoffee, is your purpose to use the symbol to catch a searchers eye and get them to click your page over the page ranked above or below yours? This is the only valid reason I can think of to do this. If your purpose is to get a higher ranking for a relevant search, I can't see how it would help. I can't see a large number of people trying to get a symbol like that into a search box.
I suspect that it the eye-candy you're going after, in which case this is interesting. I would think the prerequisite would be a symbol that actually compliments the page title, like your example with the "sqrt Maths Tutorial sqrt".
My very cheap, and probably worthless 2 cents...
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
# Posts: 7042
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Posted: 2004-May-18 15:51
I think you're talking about html entities. A few people tried this a while back and it worked for a while. Then Google picked up on it and no longer shows the symbols in title tags.
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EyesCoffee
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
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Posted: 2004-May-19 04:55
stew, yes I am going for eye candy. Currently my sites are ranked around 3rd and 4th position so visitors should, depending on their monitor settings, be able to see a eye-catching title.
bhartzer, symbols in title tags do work in google. I think google only displays certain symbols. I am positivie that one symbol is the plus-minus tag. Which is a plus sign above a minus sign. This isn't really related to my page but I just used it as a test.
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EyesCoffee
Joined: Jan 31, 2004
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Posted: 2004-May-19 04:58
And also the music symbol sign works. ♫
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