Sunday, September 30, 2012

Accurate Lengths of Title, Description and URL in SEO



Comparison of Tags length Between Different search engines:


In SEO there are some tag lengths recommendations of different tags in different search engines, for example maximum display length of title in google search engine is 66-69 character, this is in Goolge it will be different in yahoo and bing.


Title Tag Maximum Display length:

From the table it is clearly shown that google allows only 66-69 characters, Bing allows 67-72 characters and yahoo allow 64-65 characters for the title tag. Title tags is shown in the blue color, first line in the search result. This diagram shows the title in the search engines. From the following figure we can conclude that Bing allows the maximum character of 72, that is highest.
title in search engines


Comparison between Maximum Length of title tag:

comparision of title tags



Description Maximum Display length:

The description is shown in search results just under the URL. The maximum length of description is 156-158 characters in Google, 176-184 Characters in Bing and 164-190 Characters in Yahoo.  Comparison between Google, Bing and Yahoo is shown below. From the comparison it is clear that Yahoo is providing highest characters for description that are 190.
Description in search engine

Comparison between Maximum Description Length: 



Comparison between Maximum Length of title tag:

URL Maximum Display Length:


The URL shown in the search results just under the title of the page. The maximum URL display Length in Google is 75-92 Characters, Bing allows 91-94 characters and Yahoo allows 65-80 Characters. Comparison of their URL Maximum length is shown below. Figures Shows that Bing Provide highest characters for URL Length that are 94 characters.

URL in SEarch Engine

  Comparison between Maximum Description Length:

URL length Comparision


From the above Analysis we can conclude that Bing Allows maximum characters to display in search for titles, Yahoo Provide for description and Bing Provide for URL.