: Am I changing my title of the site for SEO reasons in a correct way? I have a slang dictionary website. I saw that they only have the postname / title and there own website as the title.

@Cody1181609

Definitely overthinking.

In the past, changing a few words on your page might increase the relevance for those pages in a search engine based on word priority.

Now the way it works (best guess from the industry) is the search engines will mine the content on your page. They use an overall analysis of the page content and less of a focus on the words specifically in the title (and on the main landing pages). Then they will watch links to your site from other sites (especially Social Media) to see if the words on the pages linking to your site are related to your site's content (quality links also matter). If they are, then you are up-ranked for the association.

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@Eichhorn148

This obviously depends on the length of a definition, but generally I would have thought that putting an entire definition into a title would surely make it massively long!?

As you mentioned, Google will only display approx 70 characters (its actually on pixel width), but words outside of this display limit will still get picked up by Google.

However, if you are putting an entire definition into a title tag, this is going to far and is bordering on keyword stuffing. Keep the definition in the body content, it will still get picked up by Search Engines.

I'd suggest researching some other dictionary websites, see how they do it then do something similar. I think most would do some thing like:

Slang Word - Definition of Slang Word by Website Name

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