SEO Title Length

[nomad_blogger]

Hi Everyone.

I have a few pages being flagged with "Title Too Long". However, these are page 2, page 3, page 4, etc of category pages. They obviously have "| Page x of x" at the end of the title. Can these be ignored or is there a more SEO friendly way of handling this issue?

Thanks.

Michael

[victor.celer]

The problem with long titles is that they will appear truncated in most browsers. Therefore, the search engines will truncate them as well. Sometimes there is no way to make the titles shorter. One way to interpret this issue is "if the title contains some irrelevant words kindly remove them".

[seoelevated]

I would actually address this not as a title tag issue, but as an indexation/canonical issue. Sometimes, the issues which show up in a Moz crawl are actually helpful to identify unrelated issues, and to me, this seems like one of those. Ideally, we typically only want page 1 of our category pages to be indexed, BUT we want all the category page depth crawled (followed). There are several ways to do this. The traditional way has historically been to use rel = prev/next tagging. But there has been some discussion (and acknowledgement from Google) that this is no longer supported. And so another way is with canonical tagging to a view all page (it is not very recommended to canonical to your page 1, but rather to a "all" results page). And another option is to do nothing and hopefully search engines will serve the right page to the right queries. I would research GSC looking at queiries, impressions, and clicks and see if the indexation issue is something needing attention, and if so would probably go with some kind of canonicalization approach.