Google appears to have extended the length of titles in search results snippets, ..
RankRanger's tracking tools show the length of page titles in search results has increased from 55 characters to 83 characters on average ..
Here is RankRanger's from in the week, although the length of page titles has increased even further since then..
Seeing noticeable increases in the length of result's title on multiple markets https t.co XGjHJRMXfH #SEO pic twitter com DX8Lylaare — Rank Ranger September 26, 2018..
this is increase that occurred gradually throughout the month, before spiking on September 29th...
Google extended the length of meta descriptions last December only to reduce the length months later..
It's too early to act on this reported increase in the length of page titles..
Moreover, Google has yet to acknowledge the change and or provide any sort of direction..
In other cases, Google could pull other text from the order to make it appear more relevant to what the user is searching for..
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