Page Title - Google friendly - how many Characters ?

has anyone tested to see the maximum and the minimum amount of characters to use in your title to be considered google friendly ?

i have herd that you should not go more than 50 characters, is that correct ?

Also do you think its good or bad to put your domain name at the end of the title, so as to make your page title more unique compared to other site's?

for example i have a ink cartridge website, and there are many cartridges i have on my site so i put the name of the cartridge in the tiltle tag and at the end i put - go-cartridges.co.uk. But i was thinking maybe google will see that internaly my page title are too similar. what do you think ?

Also google visits my ink cartridge websites often but for some reason it does not update the title in its index, does anyone know why ?

 

40 chars is a good benchmark. Restrict to about 6/7 words

 

i also have a printer ink cartridge website and was also wondering the same thing.

does that include spaces by the way ?

 

I have found that 64 chars is recommended by Google (including spaces) but I think 40 chars (inc spaces) is better, its shorter, and looks nicer.

 

Thanks darren... by the way does anyone know where i can get a character counter to check how many characters i have on my printer ink cartridge website

 

You can use explode() function in PHP to get word count.

<?php

$title = "Your title here";

$count = count(explode(" ", $title));

echo "$title contains $count words";

?>

PHP:

Or simply use strlen() for character count.

 

nice one sunny i like your idea... by the way do you guys know if i put my keyword in the title as for example ink cartridges then add after that ink-cartridges would google see them as the same and think im spaming, here another example:

<title> ink cartridges, ink-cartridges</title>

does google see it as spam

 

Thanks guys.. and if you need ink cartridges for your inkjet printer then please visit my site in a couple of weeks, as its still under construction

 

yes thats some whatspamming to google

 

johndoe6 & johndoe623 are you the same person? As it is not allowed on DP to use more than one ID.

 

No sunny he's my friend to tries to help me but i told him not to sign up with a similar username as it looks suspect, but he thinks its ok because our ip address is different and the administrator will know this... mmmm well i still think it looks bad but maybe he will listen after we get banned, then i will kill him.

 

As it has been said under 67 or so is standard. But just optimize it to best complement your page in length.

 

I consider 60 to 65 characters it's right way.

 

i have 7 years of exp of Internet Marketing and i will preferred that 60 to 75 characters is good for that.

 

ideal is 65 char but upto 100 its no prob

 

Don't worry so much write what your page needs

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The way you put it would be blatent spam, but search for anything in Google and you will see the keyword in 2 different locations on some Title Tags. It makes it hard for honest people knowing that you're not suppose to do that, yet seeing it work for others