Dashes in page titles and H1 Tags

<h1>Would-This-Be-A-Problem?</H1> <title>Or-How-About-This?</title>

[Born_User]

I recently added a big batch of static html pages on my site with dashes in the site title and the H1 tags.

The pages were all spidered before I recognized the error.

Now my question is... was it an error at all, where Google is concerned?

Of course I want to change the pages for user experience, but do I have anything to worry about for now?

[doc_z]

do I have anything to worry about for now?

No.

[g1smd]

If you change anything, then it will be reindexed in a few days anyway.

[pageoneresults]

<title>Or-How-About-This?</title>

The above title element will present issues. Search results are different with and without the hyphens.

[Marcia]

We have to watch and remember that there's a difference between a dash and a hyphen; they're not the same grammatically. The dash is a longer line in pen writing, but is represented by two hyphens with the keyboard -- while a hyphen is only one -

Bit of a discussion over here in this thread about page titles

[webmasterworld.com...]

That thread's a great read. :)

[luckychucky]

I guess this might be a slight aside from your exact question, but my domain goes something like this:
wholesalewidgetworld.com

When I come up (#1, baby!) in SERPS for "wholesale widget" and I view Google's cache of my page, G of course highlights all instances of 'wholesale' and 'widget' in my page text. Important to note, though, is that these two words are also separately highlighted within my domain name.

In other words, Google is smart enough to discern and harvest the individual words in your nonhyphenated domain names.

Back to your exact question- why you'd want or need to hyphenate page titles (except maybe 1 or 2 hyphens as true punctuation) completely escapes my understanding. If for spiderability, simple spaces are better or equal. For readability, hyphens are worse.And apparently there was some talk around the Search Engine Strategies conference that SE's might devalue highly hyphenated domains some day, because so many are so blatantly used for spammy keyword-stuffing.

[luckychucky]

I guess this might be a slight aside from your exact question, but my domain goes something like this:
wholesalewidgetworld.com

When I come up (#1, baby!) in SERPS for "wholesale widget" and I view Google's cache of my page, G of course highlights all instances of 'wholesale' and 'widget' in my page text. Important to note, though, is that these two words are also separately highlighted within my domain name.

In other words, Google is smart enough to discern and harvest the individual words in your nonhyphenated domain names.

Back to your exact question- why you'd want or need to hyphenate page titles (except maybe 1 or 2 hyphens as true punctuation) completely escapes my understanding. If for spiderability, simple spaces are better or equal. For readability, hyphens are worse.And apparently there was some talk around the Search Engine Strategies conference that SE's might devalue highly hyphenated domains some day, because so many are so blatantly used for spammy keyword-stuffing.