Comments on: Title Tag and Meta Description Length for Google, Yahoo, Bing & Ask

By: Greg Habermann

Greg Habermann — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:25 +0000

@Cal Hi Cal.. do you have an example you could show?

By: Cal | EcoPaint

Cal | EcoPaint — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:09:23 +0000

Thanks Greg laying out this information, doing a search on this subject, finding your article, was certainly not disappointed, getting much more info than seeking. Concentrating on Google’s algo, some say 70, 69 makes perfect sense too.
However, what I am seeing is some title tags showing much shorter than that, while others on same pg showing full length. Could you please respond, if aware of these inconsistencies, keeping title tags below the 69 character mark? Have title 62, but G is only showing 51, while others on same pg showing full 69. Tks! Cal

By: Techno Lab Dizajn

Techno Lab Dizajn — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:45:14 +0000

Valuable info on meta tags lenght.
Merci!

By: Greg Habermann

Greg Habermann — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:55:23 +0000

@Mehendra - I see it displaying about 64, which seems about right since it's truncating in the middle of a word and the Title on your page is 77 characters. SERP Title length example

By: mahendra

mahendra — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:25:57 +0000

Thanks Greg for sharing a valuable information about meta tags, but google not indexing 60 characters title which kept it for my website it is indexing only 56 characters is there any recent changes happen in google algorithm?

By: Anmelden

Anmelden — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:05:52 +0000

I think every one generally optimizes for Google and forget about the others. When i was reviewing my meta description tag I could remember how many characters i had to use. Reading your site it got me thinking about bing. Allthough most of my traffic comes from google and directories, bing does send me some traffic and I should probably pay more attention to getting more traffic from a better listing on bing search results. i dont think many people search with ask these days, maybe years ago – ask jeeves !

By: ashutosh

ashutosh — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:44:32 +0000

very good information about the title and description

By: 15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability and SEO | Usability Geek

15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability and SEO | Usability Geek — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:54:24 +0000

[...] only show the first 69 characters as the title of web pages in their SERPs whilst Yahoo! shows 72 (source). Still, this does not necessarily mean you have to try and use all 69 characters at your disposal. [...]

By: The Best Length for a Description Tag is Longer Than You Think | Search Engine People | Toronto

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:32:11 +0000

[...] in a snippet (see a great two-year old but still current information post from SageRock listing the length of title and description tag for each search engine: and it's actually 156 according to [...]

By: Inaregee IM Campus | Blog | No more meta description

Inaregee IM Campus | Blog | No more meta description — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:48:53 +0000

[...] some research. Seems like the limit for the title element is even lower. Check out this article at Sagerock which puts it at 69 or less and varying between the different major search engines. I think [...]