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**jacks smith** · 07-08-2010, 11:15 AM

Hello friends,

What happen if we cross the limit of characters for keywords, title and description tag can we penalized by search engines ?

Thanks

**A K Web Design** · 07-08-2010, 02:55 PM

Not by Yahoo. Not sure about Google.

**kline11** · 07-08-2010, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by jacks smith

Hello friends,

What happen if we cross the limit of characters for keywords, title and description tag...

Your website will explode!

Kidding aside...NOTHING will happen. SE's will only show a certain amount of the title tag in the SERP's, so it may look bad in search results, and SE's only show the description meta data ONLY when it is relevant to certain search terms. Just don't keyword stuff or spam (the descrption meta tag is ignored as far as ranking is concerned).

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2010, 03:27 PM

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What happen if we cross the limit of characters for keywords, title and description tag can we penalized by search engines ?

What limits would they be then??????

**MeRulez777** · 07-09-2010, 06:11 AM

Three dots are displayed in Google, about Yahoo I don't know.

**alan123** · 07-29-2010, 05:22 AM

As per my opinion Google will cut after cross the limit of title, description and keywords. There is no penalize and no any disadvantage for that.

**ModDish** · 07-29-2010, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ursimrankhanna

There is no any disadvantage if cross the limit.

just out of curiosity how do you know?

**acwebguru** · 07-30-2010, 07:25 AM

Dont worry no search engine will penalize you for this. By exceeding the meta tag characters means spider robot will not crawl the extra characters present in the metatag. So your keywords present in extra characters will not come up in keyword ranking.

**ThailandForum** · 07-30-2010, 07:32 AM

I heard google sends people round to your house to kidnap you and then they take you to their secret torture camps, 1 finger is cut off for every word that is over the limit, luckily though it doesn't affect your serps or anything else.

erm, well obviously it may affect your typing after they have finished with you, but your website will be ok.

**Abhinandangarg** · 07-30-2010, 08:50 AM

if relevancy is 100% than there is no penalty for this job.

**chrishirst** · 07-30-2010, 08:57 AM

I wonder why it is that we persevere in explaining how the meta keywords is not even important to search engines, when most of of you are so gullible that you would rather accept ancient half-truths and speculation rather than demonstable facts?

**ThailandForum** · 07-30-2010, 09:01 AM

^Are you saying they don't cut your fingers off? Its a well known fact that meta keywords and your fingers being chopped off by google torturers are extremely important to how well your website will do, did you know the owner of yahoo only has 1 thumb and no fingers, he won't be overloading those ever so important meta keywords again, mark my words......

**blue-dreamer** · 07-30-2010, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by ThailandForum

^Are you saying they don't cut your fingers off? Its a well known fact that meta keywords and your fingers being chopped off by google torturers are extremely important to how well your website will do, did you know the owner of yahoo only has 1 thumb and no fingers, he won't be overloading those ever so important meta keywords again, mark my words......

And in extreme cases they might cut your googleys off

**chrishirst** · 07-30-2010, 09:34 AM

So bowling maidens over will become a thing of the past then?

**ThailandForum** · 07-30-2010, 09:36 AM

^What? You mean like giving them 500baht?

**francis84** · 07-30-2010, 09:16 PM

As far as i know, Search Engines don't penalize websites with excessive number of characters in meta tags.

**Social-Media** · 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by francis84

As far as i know, Search Engines don't penalize websites with excessive number of characters in meta tags.

Ummm generally speaking this is true...

But even though Google totally ignores meta keywords elements from a ranking perspective, stuffing them with hundreds of keywords can get your URL penalized should someone discover you're keyword stuffing, report it, and your site gets reviewed manually by a Googler. Hell, Google can likely easily detect keyword stuffed meta keywords elements in an automated fashion.

I would recommend limiting the number of keyword phrases in the meta keywords element to 5-15ish... and focus on keywords/keyword phrases that appear on the page (or slight variations).

**Benmoore47** · 08-02-2010, 04:30 AM

Then there's an equivalent punishment in SEs. If you know the policies then don't doubt in following those.