Why can't I ask this question - It is not too short
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I tried to post a question which was at least 15 words long and received an error saying the question was less than 5 characters
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I tried to post a question which was at least 15 words long and received an error saying the question was less than 5 characters
Blips happen. Just try again. This question worked fine.
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Regardless of why your question wasn't accepted or not by the system, I'll provide the answer to your question...
The pipe (|) symbol has been used in page titles for many years now, it used to best practice to format your page titles something such as the following:-
Keyword 1 | Keyword 2 | Keyword 3 :: Company / Brand Name
With the keywords being in the order of priority that you wish a search engine to perceive as being the most important for that particular page.
Search has evolved since then and everything Google look for is natural look and feel serving the most relevant and useful content for the end user so it is now advisable to write page titles manually and natural in the sense that it should read well, like a short, descriptive sense describing the particular page.
Check out this for further information which discusses writing page titles that will have the best chance of performing on the web.
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My point is that I asked the following question:
"Some Top companies are now using the spacer " | " instead of a comma in the Page Title ie "Spinning | Fly Fishing Tackle | Lure Fishing Tackle | Carp Fishing" (ct Spinning, Fly Fishing Tackle, Lure Fishing Tackle, Carp Fishing) Is ther any benefit in doing this"
I added the information below
<title>Spinning | Fly Fishing Tackle | Lure Fishing Tackle | Carp Fishing</title>
The question could not be submitted because it said that there were less than 5 characters in the question - which was nonsense
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Well, the answer is quite simple. SEOMoz expects you to provide the full details while asking any question. so that people who are answering your question won't any ambiguity. and they could understand your problem properly.
Though, in a few cases only one liner is sufficient but still, majority of queries need some details to get answered.
Apart from that, SEOMoz has also imposed this restriction to avoid spam. and it's for our benefit only, SEOMoz doesn't get anything out of it.
Hope I was able to answer your query properly.
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