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Limitations of title and description tags

Started by heris charles, 07-11-2014, 05:07:27

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Ajinkya Samark

Meta Title:

Google typically displays 50 to 60 characters of the title tag.

Meta Description:

It's best to keep Meta Tags to be descriptive, but shorter than the 160-character limit.


sebco

Isn't it, this so-called webmaster game with search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Ask.com mercilessly mangling your title tags by truncating them to pathetic 50-60 chars, gutting your SEO keyword bombs, and they're equally sadistic with meta descriptions capped at 150-160 chars turning snippets into mutilated crap that buries click-through rates, and let's not kid ourselves, these algorithmic tyrants rewrite your descriptions ignoring all your clever cloaking, exposing black hat risks and punishing white hat efforts.
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123movies

Title and description tags definitely matter, but their impact is limited if the overall site quality isn't strong. I've seen this firsthand while working on my own content site, ** newbielink:https://123moviies.net/ [nonactive]**. Even with well-optimized titles and meta descriptions, performance didn't really improve until content structure, internal linking, and page speed were addressed.

Another limitation is that Google frequently rewrites titles and descriptions based on search intent, so what you set isn't always what gets shown. Because of that, relying only on tags can give a false sense of optimization.

In my experience, tags help with clarity and potential CTR, but real gains come from matching intent, improving UX, and building topical relevance across the site.
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