Google Bot Can Read Upto 76 Characters Of A Title Tag

July 23rd, 2008 | by Ankit |

Note: I performed a test, This is what this Test Says. Google Bot can crawl Upto 76 Characters of a title tag.

We had a discussion earlier on Optimizing Title Tags and Rand did a similar post Best Practices for Title Tags. There were many discussions about limiting the titles to 65 or a max of 70 in past as Google ignores beyond that limit.

About This Experiment:
Performed this experiment over a junk domain (bookmarkingservice.info) never used that domain earlier, however this is a old domain but I suppose domain age have nothing to do with this experiment.

Okay here are the test results:
Search “bndhfycjoghetyu 12″ with and without quote.
For both query You will get
www.bookmarkingservice.info/Supplier_Exporter_Product_Images/bndhfycjoghetyu/ as a search result.

Here is the Title used (76 Characters):
bndhfycjoghetyu - bndhfycjoghetyu 10, bndhfycjoghetyu 11, bndhfycjoghetyu 12

bndhfycjoghetyu 10 [Result Available]
bndhfycjoghetyu 11 [Result Available]
bndhfycjoghetyu 12 [Result Available]

For: bndhfycjoghetyu 12 (Without Quotes)
According to Google catch:
These search terms have been highlighted: bndhfycjoghetyu
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: 12

For: bndhfycjoghetyu 12 (With Quotes)
According to Google catch:
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: bndhfycjoghetyu 12

Results are same even on other URL:
www.bookmarkingservice.info/Buyer/bndhfycjoghetyu/

Title Used (73 Characters Used):
bndhfycjoghetyu - bndhfycjoghetyu 1, bndhfycjoghetyu 2, bndhfycjoghetyu 3

bndhfycjoghetyu 1 [Result Available]
bndhfycjoghetyu 2 [Result Available]
bndhfycjoghetyu 3 [Result Available]

For: bndhfycjoghetyu 3 (Without Quotes)
According to Google catch:
These search terms have been highlighted: bndhfycjoghetyu
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: 3

For: bndhfycjoghetyu 3 (With Quotes)
According to Google catch:
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: bndhfycjoghetyu 3

So have Google started counting beyond 60-65 char limit ?

I’m sure it is counting beyond 70 characters this is what I can conclude after seeing the results of this experiment.

If there is something you want to know about this experiment feel free to let me know.

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