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Should I worry about clipping titles on Google for desktop?

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hello @rfischmann

    Thanks for reaching out about your SEO title length. The focus should be on the width instead of the length. Rather than using a character count, Google has a fixed width for the titles counted in pixels. While your title tags can be long, and Google doesn’t have a set limit on the number of characters you can use, there is a limit on what’s visible in the search results.

    If your SEO title is too wide (wider than 600 px), Google will cut it off visually. And it is not ideal for your SEO. That might not be what you want. Also, you should avoid wasting valuable space by making the title too short. Not only that, the SEO title often informs other title-like elements, such as the og:title , which also have display constraints.

    Thread Starter Rafael Fischmann

    (@rfischmann)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Understood, @maybellyne, thanks. But which of the two titles’ widths (desktop vs. mobile) is most important for SEO nowadays? It seems we can see more of the title on mobile that on desktop, because it has two lines of text.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Google says they predominantly use the mobile version of a site’s content, crawled with the smartphone agent, for indexing and ranking; this is called mobile-first indexing. That makes mobile very important.

    • This reply was modified 4 months, 3 weeks ago by Maybellyne. Reason: added link
    Thread Starter Rafael Fischmann

    (@rfischmann)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Yep, I’ve heard that before. Thanks!

    Jeroen Rotty

    (@jeroenrotty)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Happy to have helped. We’ll marked the topic as resolved for now.

    Have a great day!

    Thread Starter Rafael Fischmann

    (@rfischmann)

    4 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi, just a quick bug report related to this.

    I was checking another post’s title and noticed that Yoast SEO’s preview first shows the mobile version clipping after “trimestre”, and the desktop preview clipping after “2º”. However, when I go back into the mobile preview (or just hover over it), it changes and shows it clipping after “2º” — which was what actually happened after the post was published. Desktop actually clipped after “no”, so the preview was wrong altogether.

    Here’s a short GIF showing it: https://d.pr/i/30EDpA

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