[thelist] Entities and Search Engines

Warbasse Design - Info info at warbassedesign.com
Tue May 25 13:10:37 CDT 2004


Stephen,

Indeed, I found that (on Google) if someone were searching "Tradename(TM)"
it would return a good result but, if they just searched "Tradename", it
would rank much lower.

-Phil Warbasse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Rider" <evolt_org at striderweb.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Entities and Search Engines


> On May 25, 2004, at 9:51 AM, Warbasse Design - Info wrote:
>
> > First, don't use &trade; use &#8482; instead.  Second, don't use these
> > special characters in your Title tag as they won't render properly.
> > Instead, use (TM).  Also, leave a space between your brand name and
> > the (TM)
> > to avoid search engine confusion.
>
> I would think you want to make that a non-breaking space to make sure
> the TM stays with the name... or would that drop right back into the
> problem we're avoiding in the first place?
>
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