And another thing... Here’s a similar example, but where the cutoff happened at a hyphen (-). The title style is a bit unusual (especially starting the sub-title with “And”), but the cutoff turns it from unusual to outright ridiculous: Again, simple truncation would’ve been a better bet here. I get what Google’s trying to do — they’re trying to use delimiters (including pipes, hyphens, colons, parentheses, and brackets) to find natural-language breaks, and split titles at those breaks.
Unfortunately, the examples demonstrate how precarious this approach can be. Even the classic “Title: Sub-title” format is often reversed by writers, with the (arguably) less-important portion sometimes being used first. Three case studies (& three bahamas phone number database wins) Ultimately, some rewrites will be good-to-okay and most of these rewrites aren’t worth the time and effort to fix. Over half of the Moz <title> rewrites were minor brand modifications or brand removal (with the latter usually being due to length limits).
though? I decided to pick three case studies and see if I could get Google to take my suggestions. The process was relatively simple: Update the <title> tag, trying to keep it under the length limit Submit the page for reindexing in Google Search Console If the rewrite didn’t take, update the <H1> or relevant on-page text Here are the results of the three case studies (with before and after screenshots): (1) A shady character This one was really our fault and was an easy choice to fix.
What about the objectively bad rewrites
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