What's the best Wordpress separator?

[Honeybadger]

Wordpress gives these title separator symbol options

-
–
—
:
·
•
*
⋆
|
~
«
»
<
>

for separating

1. the page title
2. the site title

But which one is the best?
Is there one that converts better than the rest?
Are there any supporting studies?

 

[PureLander]

It doesn't create noticeable difference on conversion, don't worry.. I can say .. separators enhance visual interest and title structure.
But just a note > The majority of websites use the simple hyphen -
No one knows why the hyphens are so popular compared with all the other symbols ..... That's a secret '-'

✿ Samira ✿

 

[Graybeard]

dots • or pipes | is my preference --but it's how it appears to my eye. Like Samira says --the conversion factor is trivial.

 

[Gamerseo]

A good title is most important. Separators are a secondary issue.

 

[VortexAlpha]

I don't think this has a huge impact on ranking nor on general user experience, but I prefer using | or —m but just because it looks nice to me and it fits my taste, but I think that all choices are pretty much decent.

 

[PureLander]

I don't think this has a huge impact on ranking nor on general user experience, but I prefer using | or —m but just because it looks nice to me and it fits my taste, but I think that all choices are pretty much decent.

Yeah, it really depends on ones taste, for me, I prefer the dots

- Samira

 

[GeorgeCTV]

A couple of people have run tests throughout time. The maintakeaways I've seen are that "," is problematic because it attaches itself to a word. "•" is basically ignored so if you're separating two sentences, it's still being read as one whole sentence. "-" and "|" are really 'the best' because they are unambigious in their purpose of separating one word or sentence from the next

 

[GeorgeCTV]

ambiguous is a word 'unambigious' is not

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[Graybeard]

"|" are really 'the best' because they are unambigious

| is called a pipe and its purpose is to pipe the result in Bash programming to a following command.
In C based programming languages || means 'or' considered perhaps a faster way to express that statement.
ambiguous is a word 'unambigious' is not

 

[Strickland]

There's only one thing for it, you need to split test the separators

 

[PureLander]

There's only one thing for it, you need to split test the separators

It's not really worth it ..
- Samira

 

[Graybeard]

clear in meaning; that can only be understood in one way
well the i understand the meaning any you are full of it

 

[Honeybadger]

Must have been drunk
when I asked this question

 

[Granifyn]

If you would like to separate two blocks of content by a line, the Separator block is what you are looking for. In order to add a separator block, click on the Block Inserter icon. You can also type /separator and hit enter in a new paragraph block to add one quickly. I always use the separator which is inserted wordpress mainly because i don't need to find something else. To my mind, nowadays all the tools have to be contained in the program which you use on a daily basis. No doubts, that sometimes it might quite inconvenient, however if you will master this thing, you will be certainly the best.

 

[Graybeard]

suit yourself
it's a real bad idea today for the mobile internet
but the bad ideas get parroted over and over and are old as dinosaur turds.