Recommended and Maximum Title Length?

what is in your opinion the recommended and maximum title length for a web page? (im asking about the Title meta tag). what are the implications of going over those limits?

thanks

 

Going over limit will just mean that google will truncate your title in the serp.

 

Hi,

According to the Top contributors in Google Webmaster Central, Title values anything above 60-64 will be truncated in SERP, even though values upto 1129 are indexed.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2260cb949afd9fcf&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=313ab249bf632d9e&hl=en

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I would like the meta tag to be short, crisp and enriched with important key words

 

I agree with dairyman, the simple short enriched title include with your keyword

 

I heard that recently Google allowed 70 characters for Title tag. But the exact length is 64 character.

 

There's no specific limits, as to say. Although, for best results, try and keep it around 30-55.

 

65 chars. I use something like: "keywords and keywords guide" if keywords less than 30 chars

 

Recommended length is - maximum of current page keywords you can put in Title. Keywords out of 60-65 chars will not give you any seo effect, so i do not recommend more then 60 chars.

 

Title : 60 characters
Description : 140 characters.

 

for title it shouldnt be more than 65 characters. The most important thing is to make sure it contains the keyword.

 

I always prefer short meaningful meta title with keyword.

 

I would like to say 65 characters is good for title tags.

 

According to me 65 Character is standard length of title and 150 character for Description

 

ok guys thanks for your answers! very helpful

 

I would personally not go over 40 also, unless it's very specific niche or long phrase. (at least for homepage)

 

Do not go over 80 I would say.

What Google and other SEs show in SERP is just a visual issue, they consider your whole title text, but remember that if you have a long title each word gets less relevancy.

Place your most important keywords at the beginning of your title tag.

 

Title : 60 Characters
Description : 140 Characters.

 

Yeh, i agree with you allthewebsites, google can index more larger titles than we can see on search results but best use could be make it shorter & worthy to understandable to users & search engines. best use would be 60-65char, but some time google can shows upto 72 chars.

 

Since search engines not show all Title Tag in their SERPs therefore recommend to keep it up to maximum 8 words in Title Tag.