Oddity in SEO Page Title Character Number

  • Resolved lowcountryvistascharleston

    (@lowcountryvistascharleston)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    In the page title field of the SEO section of any page, the field is filled-in with a grayed-out title of the page by default. The characters in gray add to the character limit of the title, but they don’t show up in the title section of the SEO snippet. And when I manually add the titles to the page title fields in the SEO section, the title that was in gray adds to the character number.

    For example, if the title of a page is “Example Page”, the SEO page title field would show “Example Page” in gray. The title DOES NOT show up in the SEO preview snippet in this scenario. So, if I manually add the title to the title field so it appears in the snippet, the existing “Example Page” title in gray counts against my character limit. In other words, I start typing the title of the page with 12 characters already counted against me. Please explain this oddity, and please guide me in terms of best SEO practices. Thank you.

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  • Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    The character counter is including the number of characters in the Site Title which is appended to the end of your page title by default. You control this title format under All in One SEO, General Settings, Title Settings – https://semperplugins.com/documentation/title-settings/#title-format-fields

    Thread Starter lowcountryvistascharleston

    (@lowcountryvistascharleston)

    Thank you for the quick reply, Steve. Since the title of my site is long, which I did on purpose so that search engines would pick up what I do as well as the name of the business, page titles almost always exceed the 60 character general rule. For SEO best practices, would it make sense to disable Rewrite Titles so that the page titles would be 60 characters or less? Or, should I leave the title of the site in the page titles–as they are by default–, even though that makes the page titles far exceed the 60 character limit?

    Here’s an example page from my site:

    https://lowcountryvistas.com/what-we-do/

    Thanks again.

    Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    Do not disable Rewrite Titles or All in One SEO Pack will not write any titles.

    Just go to All in One SEO, General Settings, Title Settings and remove the text that looks like what is shown below from the Page Title Format field:

    | %blog_title%

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