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Originally Posted by loya
As per the rules for title 70-80 characters, for meta keywords and description each 250 characters max.. i am using like that..(approx 30 keywords)
i think if we put more, then google can't read that remaining characters..
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Now those are some of the worst optimizing guidelines I've ever heard.
Why 70-80 characters for title element? Did you/they pick that randomly out of the air? Google will display up to 65 or 66 characters, but after that they will trucate it which is typically why MOST say 65 should be the limit. But you should rarely even need 65 characters since each page should be targeting one keyword phrase (maybe two or three if they are almost identical).
Google will read and consider the entire title element, even if its several hundred characters long. I don't recommend having one more than 65, but there really is no set limit as to how far out they look. I've run tests that prove they consider words even in the 300th+ position of a title.
Why 250 characters for the meta description? Yahoo truncates around 145 and Google around 150 IF they even decide to use it as your search snippet (unless you're targeting a very longtail phrase with more than 3 keywords in it in which case Google might show 300-400 characters).
Why 250 characters for the meta keywords? Most SEOs would say it's best to limit this to 5-10 keyword phrases... but no one limits its content by the number of characters... It's not a "meta characters" element.
I'm not sure who you're getting your optimization "guidelines" from but I would try looking elsewhere. |
