Minimum Title Tag Length
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Hello everyone,
I'm curious here, what is the minimum length a Title Tag should be so it doesn't receive the "Title Element Too Short" error here on SEOMoz?
Thank you.
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Agreed. Always do what is best for the user. Sometime people stuff their title tags to get most "bang for the buck" and often times this can hurt them. I always look at the title as a cta in the organics and try to make them compelling and unique and don't care that much about min. length.
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I wouldn't worry overly about chasing A grades on the on-page tool here. The goal isn't to please seomoz! I use some VERY short titles very effectively. The too short warning is really about possible missed opportunity. Go with what makes sense, but use the "too short" warning as a flag to look at whether it is the best title to use.
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Thanks guys,
We just used a different CMS this time around and for certain pages it just grabbed the product name (e.g. "Mary") as the page title, so a bunch of those errors came up. I will increase their lengths of course, just wanted to know what the SEOMoz software believed to be the minimum.
Kind Regards
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We are using below 70 char because Google displays only below 70 char title so if you want to display your whole title in perfect range then you have to use 68 char. In my site i am using 70 to 80 char title and i am did not notice any error.
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No title tag from my experience would be below 68 characters including spaces,
If you do a title tag between 70-80 characters including spaces it will be too long and be cut off.
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shrugs Never had that issue, I say go over at least 25 charters but under 70
"this is an example title" < -- That's 24 characters
I use this tool when I'm uncertain:
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Ignore those errors. As long as the title tag isn't empty and aren't the same on multiple pages of the site, you're fine in regards to how short the tag is.
That said, I'm not sure what length triggers the error for SEOMoz.
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Hi, Title tag should be around 70 or 80 char. If you make you title withing that range then you will not receive that error, but every page title not necessary to have 70 char long. Can you give me your title which receive too short error? because some static page like about us and contact us does not have too long titles. Read this link it will gives you more clear idea about title tag length.
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/title-tags-is-70-characters-the-best-practice-whiteboard-friday
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