Guest Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hello, Can anyone tell me how many characters to use for: Title: Description: and Keywords: I keep hearing different counts. Is there a general rule? Thanks, Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Nobody knows? or is everyone holding back on there secrets?... I did talk to the owner of a wine site and is business is very lucrative. He said the max is 10 keywords. You can view is site at http://www.cellarswineclub.com/ This guy is number one on Google search engine. Ok I'm tired of talking to myself...Can anyone help finish the questions? Thanks, Pat :) Hello,Can anyone tell me how many characters to use for: Title: Description: and Keywords: I keep hearing different counts. Is there a general rule? Thanks, Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooks Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 There are plenty of sites that will test your tags & report errors, there are variations in reported limits though. Sam Remember, What you think I ment may not be what I thought I ment when I said it. Contributions: Auto Backup your Database, Easy way Multi Images with Fancy Pop-ups, Easy way Products in columns with multi buy etc etc Disable any Category or Product, Easy way Secure & Improve your account pages et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BearRiver Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Are you using Google Analytics? If so, what are getting most your hits from? Or better yet, where are you showing high in page rank but NOT getting hits from? Or maybe you're just starting out so you don't know the answers to either of those questions. If so, keep your title descriptive! Make sure you front load the most important keywords first, and keep them fairly concise. Also, be sure you keep the names of your files descriptive also. If you were selling apples, you wouldn't want your sales pages to be : sales.php, you'd want something like apples-for-sale.php. Hope this points you in the right direction! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_mcs Posted March 4, 2009 Share Posted March 4, 2009 Hello,Can anyone tell me how many characters to use for: Title: Description: and Keywords: I keep hearing different counts. Is there a general rule? Thanks, Pat The only physical limit is whatever the size of the field for each is. However, the practical limits are much lower. Titles should only be around 60 - 100 characters. The search engines will truncate them if they are too long. Although google, at least, will use longer ones if they are deemed worthwhile. It is better, in my opinion, not to take that chance. Descriptions shouldn't be more than a few sentences. Look at the results in any of the search engines and you will see that is usually the limit. For keywords, a maximum of three is generally all a page can handle. If you can have a lot of text on the page without it affecting your customers, then that number can be higher but that is not usually the case. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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