--- title: "Title length outside 10–60 characters, or keyword-stuffed (seo/title-length)" description: "seo/title-length: Google has no hard limit but truncates titles to the device width; very short titles are rewritten, and repeated keywords look like…" canonical: https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/title-length lastModified: 2026-09-16 --- # Title length outside 10–60 characters, or keyword-stuffed `seo/title-length` · severity **warn** · category SEO · detected by `void seo` and `void audit` ## Why it matters Google has no hard limit but truncates titles to the device width; very short titles are rewritten, and repeated keywords look like stuffing. This is a heuristic. ## How to fix it Write a specific, concise title ("Page topic | Brand"), roughly 10–60 characters, without repeating words. ## References - https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/title-link ## More seo rules `void seo` reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in , self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates. - `html-lang` missing or not a valid BCP 47 tag — [seo/html-lang](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/html-lang) - `viewport` Viewport meta missing, not device-width, or blocks zoom — [seo/viewport](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/viewport) - `charset` Character encoding not declared early — [seo/charset](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/charset) - `title-missing` No single non-empty in <head> — [seo/title-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/title-missing) - `meta-description-missing` No meta description in <head> — [seo/meta-description-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/meta-description-missing) - `meta-description-length` Meta description length outside 50–160 characters — [seo/meta-description-length](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/meta-description-length) - `metadata-in-body` Crawler receives <title>/canonical/description inside <body> (Next.js streaming metadata) — [seo/metadata-in-body](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/metadata-in-body) - `canonical-missing` No single rel=canonical in <head> — [seo/canonical-missing](https://void-design.vercel.app/rules/seo/canonical-missing) Detected by `void seo` and `void audit`. Explain it in a terminal: `void rules seo/title-length`