Seo Expert Topic - Title relevancy words is 60 word max or up to 80 okay??

Title relevancy words is 60 word max or up to 80 okay?? im boggled every where I check another seo breaks the code of title relevancy and characters listed in one huge article I read that if you use more then 60 charictors in titles some directories wont list you??? although people do not rely on directories any more ..... does that mean you could get way with less then 80 words or stay at 60 to 70 any seo expert have quotes?

tell me Ive retitled my title for this site here dog-trainers.us Im going to use this now here <title> Dog-Trainers Natural Dog-Nutrition Home Training Alternatives </title> there are 63

what would be your recommendations here seo expertsss??/

 

I use 68 Max and 60 Min... Well that's for me, don't know other SEO's out there.

 

hows your traffic status for that title usage? is it helping you with 68 are you doing good is your tags showing up in Google yahoo msn???

 

I see some using up to 80 word in metadata why??? is that spam

 

im still looking for seo expert opinion on meta data

 

here what I came for in my title tags here <title>Dog-Trainers Natural Canine-Nutrition Training Solutions</title> for dog-trainers.us