Does Google Like Shorter Title Tags Better?

Has Short, Search-friendly Title Tag Has Increased In Importance?

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June 22, 2012

Does Google Like Shorter Title Tags Better?
Ruth Burr, the lead SEO at SEOmoz put out an interesting article, suggesting that shorter title tags may be more important in Google these days. SEOmoz was finding that some of its posts with longer titles were not displaying the right titles in search results. Rather, Google was returning the keyword-heavy part of the contents URLs as the titles. Pretty weird. It looks like having a short, search-friendly title...

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