Length of Title tag - Length of Title tag (Posted by Jeff Rus)
Hello,
I found a lot of information about Meta Tags and how they are displayed
on search results pages of the major search engines. But I couldn't find
anything about how long your page title should be.
I had created a title of 14 words, and the last three words weren't shown
on AltaVista.
Thanks,
Jeff
JP Stones posted this at 05:26 — 5th November 1999.
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Keep in mind that when the search engines display your ranking they sometimes show what you have in your title tag - they normally cut off this text after about 250 characters so by this point you should have explained what the current page is about.
JP
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John Pollock posted this at 17:40 — 5th November 1999.
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I just use a simple title, then it doesn't get cut off. It would seem a title longer than 5-7 words would
seem long to me, but that is just me.
My best advice is to use a meaningful title with a few solid keywords, but to avoid a long list or a never-ending description.
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Jeff Rus posted this at 19:02 — 5th November 1999.
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Hi John,
But when I look at the title on THIS page: it has 13 words
Or aren't these pages indexed by spiders?
Jeff
John Pollock posted this at 02:33 — 6th November 1999.
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This page isn't owned by me, I really don't know where it is indexed and such. I was only giving an opinion, so it doesn't mean I'm right. I just found that long titles never helped me with the search engines, and they made my listings look bad. Consider this- which site would you go to when you saw its listing at a search engine?
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