Dash or vertical bar in titles?

[nyc-seo]

Hello.

Should I use a dash or a vertical line in title tags?

Thank you!

[Francisco_Meza]

Matt Cutts says those are symbols and that they are looked at as spaces.

[Boodreaux]

My bad...I was thinking url's not title tags.

[mememax]

I think there's no agreement on that, it normally depends on personal choice. Normally I prefer to use all the separators just to make the site a little different and don't use always the same structure. However if I need to choose one I'll use user experience and readability for it, and personally I find the pipe much more readable than the hyphen just because separates better the sentences, However you may use a combination of both if the two portion of text are related.

Examples:

• Guide to Ibiza - Boat trip to Ibiza | IBIZATRAVELS.COM
• Hotel Ibiza | Bars and Restaurant in Ibiza

The first sentence (the last part is just for branding if you want although I don't love so much having the domain in the title), got an hyphen in the first part because boat trip seems to clarify which part of the guide to ibiza we're speaking about. The site name is not related that's why I put a pipe. In the same way I separated the two parts in the second option just because they're both about tourism in ibiza but they're not co-related in this case.

[Boodreaux]

I have seen that most responses to that questions over time have been the slash line that separates words in the title. Not a dash but the slated vertical line.