SEO value of article title content?

[TheaterMania]

I work for an online theater news publisher. Our article page titles include various pieces of data: the title, publication date, article category, and our domain name (theatermania.com).

Are all of these valuable from an SEO standpoint? My sense it'd be cleaner to just show the title (and nothing more) on a SERP. But we'll certainly keep whatever helps us with rankings.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I would take a look at the best practices for title tags. Your title tag should be a mix of what users are actually searching for and editorial language for click throughs.

Personally, I would just include the title, category (only if it adds value), and brand. You can include the date in the article itself. Just be mindful of length.

Can you give examples of the categories? Let me know.

Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!