How many characters in a descriptive tag?

[KidsBeeHappy]

HI There

I can't remember the normal constraints for descriptive tags, and titles.

Is it 60 characters for titles, and 200 for descriptions????

Any help much appreciated.

Kind regards
Sandra

 

[amasum]

as far as i remember it's about 70-80 chars for Title but not sure about the descriptive one.

 

your fine with 200 or so.

Titles can be a couple of hundred as well but you may suffer from a bit of watering down.

Earl

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

I've a description that's about 170, incl spaces. Thing is, that it reads quite well, and has the major keywords in it. If i extend it, it starts to read a bit false. If i leave it as it is, Am I penalising myself by not making full use of what's available to me?

 

[amasum]

boxby, you're fine with whatever you've mate. just make sure that if you want to add more than 70 chars in the Title tags then don't have your primary keywords after the first 70 chars..you don't get penalised for it..Google just doesn't read after certain number but other SEs do...

 

[nigel]

Here is what a meta tag analyzer has to say for your site;
Meta tags analysis.
Title:Title meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 65 characters.
Title relevancy to page content is fair.
The Title relevancy to page content is 78%.
Description:This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 311 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 250.
Description relevancy to page content is poor.
The Description relevancy to page content is 57%.
Keywords:Keyword relevancy to page content is terrible. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 33%.
Robots:Found no robots meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps spiders to index the web page. Author:Found no author meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps for your (company) name recognizing.