Use of "/" and using fractions in titles

[BobBawden1]

We are a company that sells pipe and fittings. An example of a part that someone will search for is :

3/4" PVC Socket

I am not sure how best to represent the fraction in the title of the page that has such a product. I am concerned that if I use the forward slash it will be misinterpreted by search engines (although it will be interpreted properly by users). A lot of folk search for the product by the fraction size and so it would be good to be able to represent it in the title, but I don't want to get "punished" by confusing search engines. I could replace the forward slash with a hyphen or pipe symbol, but then may look a bit weird to our users...

Any recommendations?

Bob

[BobBawden1]

Thanks seoman, that was very helpful, I think I'll go with the slash then as it will make a lot more sense to users and hopefully inspire a bit more trust.

[seoman10]

You shouldn't have any problems using slashes. Most big search engines have long since worked out what you mean.

The respond downside is some CMS systems don't support special characters (although that is very rare these days)

It may look neater to use symbols.