How long should a title tag be?

[jamesf4218]

Hello,

In order to make a good title tag, what's the longest I can have it? Should I make it as long as possible?

Cheers

James

[diddlydazz]

Hi James,

People have different opinions on this.

I personally never use a title longer than 70 characters as most SEs truncate the title after around 68-70. Further I think a title that takes up the whole top bar of the browser looks spammy IMO

hope this helps

Dazz

[jamesf4218]

OK thanks

[Laisha]

I do a maximum of 65.

[Giddion]

If you look at the titles of many Google results it is vary rare they go over 6 or 7 words. And if they do, they get cut off. So I feel anything over 7 words is a waste!

I always try to keep them short and sweet! That way they are to the point and they don't look (as diddlydazz would say) spammy!

[nvision]

Certainly stick to character limit, not words. Imagine, with just 2 "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (or however you spell that) you're just skimming the general character limit mentioned above.

[jamesf4218]

Should I use commas to separate key words and phrases. Should the tag be:

one,two,three,four,five,six seven,eight nine ten, twelve

or

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten twelve

What happens if two or three of the phrases contain the same word?

Cheers

James

[agerhart]

I use commas, no spaces.....this was inside info given at BarCon.

Also, I would try to keep the repition of keywords to a minimum. Shoot for three as a max.

Ex: "widgets,blue widgets,red widgets"

[stricko]

I usually go for 6-8 words in the title tag but it must be descriptive and legible.

For example

Type in "accommodation nsw" in Google and Yahoo.com

Both engines use the Title Tag but site number three title is cut off on both Search Engines. It looks a little clutered compared to sites 1 and 2. Now that Yahoo.com uses Google results, we must take that into consideration.

I use a comma and a space in keywords for aesthetics but as they are becoming less relevant, I wouldn't be too concerned.