{"id":79631,"date":"2012-06-11T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=79631"},"modified":"2012-06-10T22:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T02:18:31","slug":"wordpress-title-character-counter-plugin-for-improved-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-title-character-counter-plugin-for-improved-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Title Character Counter Plugin for Improved SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAccording to a recent post at SearchEngineLand<\/a>, Google is now changing the titles of your posts in its search engine results if they run too long. Therefore, if you\u2019d like more control over your titles in Google\u2019s search pages, it would benefit you to not go over their character limit.<\/p>\n

So what is Google\u2019s character limit for titles? Well, it\u2019s been said for years that the limit was 70. Doing a very informal test on some search results recently, the longest I\u2019ve come across was 68. Once it gets past the limit, the title gets truncated. And now, if the post at SearchEngineLand is correct, we will soon be seeing Google replace our titles with something they think is appropriate.<\/p>\n

Google is always saying write for people, not search engines. And yet it seems that they think it\u2019s perfectly OK for search engines to write for people. Strange. :)
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Playing by the Rules<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Well, OK. Fine. But I\u2019d rather write my own titles than have a computer write them. And so with WordPress, you can stay within the \u201clegal limit\u201d of \u2026 ??? \u2026 70\/68\/65 (to be safe) characters with a plugin called Limit a Post Title to X Characters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This plugin lets you both set the limit of your title and count the characters at the same time.<\/p>\n

Here it is in action.<\/p>\n

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And so it\u2019s that simple. Don\u2019t let Google take over your titles. Just keep them under the limit.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto: Count of Four<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t let Google change your title on you. Stay within their length limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":79644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-79631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216248,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79631\/revisions\/216248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79631"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=79631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}