Wednesday, April 24, 2013

How Many Title Tag Characters Will Google, Yahoo, Bing Display in a Search ?...

Google Search Engine Meta Tag Limitations:
Google accept 69 Characters (Including Spaces) for title.
Google accept 156 Characters (Including Spaces) for Description.

Yahoo Search Engine Meta Tag Limitations:
Yahoo accepts up to 72 Characters (Including Spaces) for a title. (PDF’s accept up to 75 characters)
Yahoo accepts up to 161 Characters (Including Spaces) for Description.

Bing/MSN Search Engine Meta Tag Limitations:
Bing accepts 65 Characters (Including Spaces) for title.
Bing accepts up to 150 Characters (Including Spaces) for Description.
Bing will readily show 69 characters for the Title Tag and up to 185 for the description.

You can use Effective Meta Tags: 
Meta Title tag = 65 char max recommended
Meta Description Tag = 160 char max recommended
Meta Keywords Tag = No issue…
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This table shows how the maximum title length in the major search engines has changed over time:
Year
Google
Bing
Yahoo
2007
       66 chars
       65 chars
120 chars
2008
       66 chars
       65 chars
72 chars
2009
       71 chars
       65 chars
 72 chars
2010
       71 chars
       67 chars
 65 chars
2011
       71 chars
       70 chars
Uses Bing results, so inherits Bing limits
2012
Visible width up to 70 chars
       70 chars

2013
Visible width up to 70 chars
Visible width up to 71 chars

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