Jan 03

Q and A: Is it true only 65 characters of a title tag will show in a browser but 200 will be indexed?

Tag: meta tags,Q and A,seo — Kalena Jordan @ 3:11 pm

QuestionHi Kalena…

Is it true that only the first 65 characters of the title tag will be seen in a searcher’s browser even though about 200 will be indexed?

Diane

Dear Diane

Yes, around 65-70 characters (or 8 words) will be displayed and up to 300 characters will be indexed (by Google at least).
More info here:

Best Practices for Title Tags and

The Title Tag Experiment

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One Response to “Q and A: Is it true only 65 characters of a title tag will show in a browser but 200 will be indexed?”

  1. Gary R. Hess says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I’ve always thought this, but never had hard-core proof of it happening. The elipses are still annoying and cause people not to click though, so I still avoid it when possible.

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