Title Length Vs Keywords

[HB17]

Hello all,

I've been talking with an SEO expert who convinced me to add more keywords to my titles of a section of our site which is updated with products daily. I can see the logic and I do prefer having these additional keywords.

The problem now is in Moz it says we have over 2,000 pages with title elements that are too long, which is true they are all over the 70 character limit.

Is this a problem SEO wise? Speaking to our SEO expert they said it's not ideal from a user point of view as you can't see the full title, but are we going to be upsetting Google by having 150+ character titles?

Thanks!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

This is more from a search standpoint and how much of your title will show. If your titles are getting the main point of the content across in SERPs, with keywords toward the front of the title, then you should be fine.

That said, I would not add too many or repeat keywords as this could be consider over optimization and keyword stuffing, which can trip spam filters, and it will also make your titles long.

Here are some tips from Moz on title tags, there is also a tool to test your title tags and their appearance.

Hope this all helps! Good luck!