Comments on: Healthy Blog Post Title Length

By: Atniz

Atniz — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:50:12 +0000

Most commonly search engine will only display 65-70 letters in title section. Long title usually truncated to reach this figure or they will add … at the end of the title. This does not mean they don’t use it in indexing. They only able to display 70 character limit on the title section. Same goes for meta description as it limits up to 160 letters.

By: sikat ang pinoy

sikat ang pinoy — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:37:22 +0000

I guess there is not concrete rule about this idea. Maybe unless it is relevant you can extend your title to 6 on so on.

By: Work At Home

Work At Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:44:04 +0000

Great! My favorite length is 5 too.

By: Work At Home

Work At Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:42:41 +0000

Yes, it is. Perfect title explains better about the whole article. But, length just made it look spammy.

By: Work At Home

Work At Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:41:51 +0000

Congratulations for getting top spot for that keyword. It is not always happen for many. I learned something new from you today. Maybe, it is time to think less competitive keywords.

By: Work At Home

Work At Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:39:53 +0000

I don’t know which match you are talking about here.

By: Work At Home

Work At Home — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:39:12 +0000

Good to know that. Hope you don’t write 10 words title in your blog post anymore.

By: Web Templates

Web Templates — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:55:06 +0000

I would agree that 5 words is typically the best length for blog titles. That is enough words to provide context without being excessive.

By: Fun Fact

Fun Fact — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:26:11 +0000

In my opinion the blog post title should be relevant to the content in the post..and i make my title in this way..
Some times I get visitors on my site who have actually searched for the title on google.

By: Matt Hayden

Matt Hayden — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:27:03 +0000

Yes, I think that about 3 to 5 words is good. I also think that it’s worth putting at least one major, oft-searched for keyword in the title. Then put some less competitive keywords in there as well.

I always remember the long tail traffic I got on a blog I write about news and politics. I posted about John McCain telling a joke about Chelsea Clinton. I had “McCain” and “Chelsea” in the post title, and I ended up on page one of results for searches for those two words together. Got a lot of hits as a result.

Of course, I couldn’t have competed for either one of those words on their own. But there weren’t that many other bloggers who put both names in their blog post titles, so I ranked highly.

Something to remember …