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More Wordpress SEO

by Intrepreneur
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Ok, I've heard all this, might be nonsense about the title being less that 63 charachters.

I acted on this information and took the blog title off the end of all of my posts.

I'm planning on changing it back and see does it make a difference, more testing lets call it.

I guess it will mess up my rankings for a little while.. while it starts to change in the SERPS again.

What's your thoughts, a good idea to have blog title after the posts or not..

If there's no answers for this I guess it's down to me to test it.

Cheers.
#seo #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author livingwell
    more terrible advice.

    next youll be telling us to ignore the description tag.

    youve already told people to stay away from backlinks in another thread.

    come back when youre old enough to shave.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by livingwell View Post

      more terrible advice.

      next youll be telling us to ignore the description tag.

      youve already told people to stay away from backlinks in another thread.

      come back when youre old enough to shave.
      Who are you and what;s your game?

      Anything but constructive your replies, so why reply at all.

      I'm actually sitting here sniggering, because you haven't even read what I've written but have the audactiy to dream up something to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author livingwell
    im stick of seeing you give truly bad advice to newbies. my name is Julia. whats yours?
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  • Profile picture of the author livingwell
    having a title tag of more than 63 is bad advice.

    carry on laughing kiddo.

    *shakes head as she walks away*
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  • Profile picture of the author livingwell
    OMG.

    that shows nothing. cant you see how google stops reading/indexing the title after 64?

    OMG.

    cant you see that? am i really having a serious conversation with someone about this? can someone really be so blind? OMG.
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  • Profile picture of the author livingwell
    lol. can you prove they carry on reading? can you show me some algorithms that prove it please?

    sorry but so far your seo advice just isnt cutting it. youll understand why im a skeptic.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Interesting thread, actually.

      I did some experimenting. I tried to find sites that
      had titles longer than 64 characters, and copied the whole
      title then put this in quotes, did a google search, and the site came
      up #1. So, I am assuming google read the whole title, but yes,
      they only display the first. I did a search for
      "Car body care tips: how to wash your car, polish and wax car exterior, how to remove scratches and more"
      Only one site had this whole thing in the title, so obviously come up
      #1. There are actually plenty of other sites that have the same
      first few words.

      You could do a little experiment yourself. Make a site with a title
      way over 64 characters that would be unique. Get it indexed on
      google, then do a search for the whole title and see if it comes up
      #1. If it did, I'd say google 'reads' past the first 64.

      Now here is something that would be the clincher. Make up a site
      with your unique phrase at the end of your title. Of course it would
      be way past 64 characters. Then get it indexed on google, do a
      search for that exact unique phrase, and see if it comes up #1.
      If it does, google must read past 64.

      Another thing that gets me to believe that they see past 64 is
      that many times when I do a search, the words I am searching
      for are not highlighted anywhere. I always wondered why. Now
      I think it is because those words are at the tail end of the
      title and are not shown, but were certainly 'read.'

      Because of that previous statement, I have been reluctant to
      click on a site without the keywords searched for highlighted in
      the title. So, perhaps it is indeed good advice to put your desired
      keywords as close to the front as possible. People may think
      like me and not click.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    The number of characters indexed in a Title Tag varies by search engine. And Google does in fact read the entire Tag it just does not display a tag longer than the 63 Characters (Or is it 62?) And that count includes spaces. Is there a benefit to having a long Title? Probably less of a benefit than a detriment.

    There simply isn't room to display giant tags in the Search Results.

    What is important is that your title tags convey the appropriate message to the Reader so they will take an action.

    A short descriptive keyword rich readable tag is always in order.

    If Wordpress throws in a long title tag because you choose to set up a page that way and your Title for the Article is very long... that's fine. But you should think about those Article Titles as you create them.

    Keep in mind there are "rules" and exceptions to rules. The point of the 63 Characters is to make a Title Readable and useful.

    I try not to exceed about 40 characters as I am not trying to stuff in every keyword possible.
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