Question about titles

In the title of a web page, how many letters or words are read by search engines (not just Google). I mean, how many are relevant to them.

Thank you.

 

I am by no means sure of this but I believe generally it's recommended you keep the title under 80 characters..

 

shorter titles are better but in my exprience , titles under 60 cha. is good

 

The first three words give a big weight in SERP.

 

the shorter the better. to rank well in SERP you need to raise your PR...

 

I prefer below 60 characters including spaces.. You should put your target keywords in your title to help increase your rankings in search engines...

 

Google only shows about 65 characters in the SERPs.

I generally like to see short titles with only 2-4 keywords in it.

it also depends on the page and the contents of it. Some pages will require a longer title while others will suffice with a couple of words.

 

My experience is that any title longer than about 65 characters (including spaces) gets the ending cut off in the SERPs link on Google results pages.

 

Actually limit in google is upto 65 characters,make sure keyword on which you want to optimize comes under the 65 characters.

 

I think title should be less than 60 characters

 

I would also limit myself to around 60 characters

 

can you prove it?

 

Main keywords only in the title. The more the less relevance for each one, so focus and make it readable.
That's what I do, and I too stay under the above limits for chars.

 

Thanks everyone for the replies. Now I have a better idea of what I should have for a title.
I apologize, because I couldn't find the general forum for this thread.

 

Apparently that the shorter is the title the better for you...I think that every word in the title is considered but the first words are more important...

 

Under 65 is what i would use. They do not list more than that so they do not help after that.

 

I dont go over 57...dont know why but it has always worked our well for me.

 

I agree with teamboston. The shorter the better, and the more strength each word carries.

 

That's right. My suspicion is that Google caches titles longer than 65 characters, but only displays about 65 of the characters, followed by ....., in the blue link on the SERPs page.

 

I agree with most guys here 60-65 for me