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Page Title & Meta Description Getting Cut Off In The SERPs
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Hi Guys,
I am trying to figure out why my page titles and meta d tags are getting cut off in Goofle SERPS.
My page titles are 70 characters or under (including spaces) and my meta Dd's are 155 characters or under (including spaces) so I cannot work out why They are getting cut off.
Is there something I have missed?!
Thanks,
Meaghan
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Thanks team!
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I read a couple articles about the issue a while back. Search engines do not actually use a hard number of characters in both the title and the descriptions. They actually use a pixel width. You can read more about it here http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/page-title-meta-description-lengths-by-pixel-width/ and here http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool
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Title tag guidelines have changed. Check out this post by Dr. Pete at http://moz.com/blog/new-title-tag-guidelines-preview-tool
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