Comments on: How Long Should the Page Title Tag Be?

By: Razibul Hassan

Razibul Hassan — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:23:55 +0000

W3C’s recommendation for a page title is a maximum of 64 characters.
Google recommends a maximum title length of 60 characters. Though there is no strict guideline for that.
Bing prefers a title between 5 to 65 characters long where as Yahoo! recommends a maximum of 67 characters for a page title.
Yahoo search results are now provided by Bing (since mid-2010).

Thanks for the post Ann. that would definitely help the website developers.

By: cheltenham

cheltenham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:20:19 +0000

Thanks Ann,
I googled this article as the tools I use say that 80 is max in terms of being 'robot friendly'. But some of our competitors have longer titles than this (which is obviously to catch the long-tail stuff as you say. But how does being 'robot friendly' compare to visibiltiy of the tag in the SE's and is there a cut-off point where the SE will just stop reading the tag?

By: cheltenham

cheltenham — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:20:19 +0000

By: Terry Harmon

Terry Harmon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:05:04 +0000

This may not have anything to do with length of titles, Ann…but what is your opinion about where your brand should be in relation to beginning, back of title text?

By: Matt Santi

Matt Santi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:30:14 +0000

Yea exposure is great but if you don’t get people to click on it what good does that do you in the first place?

I can place a billboard up advertising something. It gets a ton of exposure but if no one ever reacts on my offer, it’s wasted.

By: affordable

affordable — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:23:27 +0000

i read an article that stated that 150 is the standard characters used but 70 is ideal.
Now, mine is 128 characters with spaces. do u guys thinks is ok?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:59:14 +0000

I think the brand exposure is really only something I would worry about if you
don’t have enough to describe this unique page within the 65 characters.

i.e.(hypothetical!)

(title)Cherry Bombs and Other toy Fireckrackers from KidswithBadtoys.com (end
title)

That would work, But I would suggest that you may want to put MORE supportive
keywords in and do the branding outside the 65 chars – as it will show up in the
browser title still.

i.e.
(title)Cherry Bombs, Caps for Capguns and Other toy Fireckrackers from
KidswithBadtoys.com(end title)

-note don’t look at how poorly my keywords support each other… !

By: SeoDeals.com.au

SeoDeals.com.au — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:28:32 +0000

Great information. Page titles should be at least 60 and must be created to generate long tail searches, especially when you got new website. Thank you ..

By: DS

DS — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:20:38 +0000

Hey, Thanks for detailed information. I am also using 60-70 for title and very careful with description with maximum 250 limit.

By: Muthukumar

Muthukumar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:08:26 +0000

i think this is good information.thank u so much