Free Character & Word Counters

Optimisation Tools for Meta Tags

The Title tag, Description meta tag and (to a lesser extent) the Keywords meta tag can be used to assist in receiving a higher search engine ranking.

All website owners and developers should become familiar with articles about SEO - Seach Engine Optimisation and in paticular informative articles referring to achieving high google rankings. If you implement many of the points in those artilces, your website will become more effective.

In regard to the major Australian used search engines (google, yahoo, ninemsn, sensis), we have found that:

• The title should be 65 characters or less.
• The description meta tag should be 155 characters or less.
• The keywords meta tag should be 256 characters or less.

By using the various Free Character & Word Counter Tools below we have been able to get to this page to number 1 on Google.com when searching with the phrase "free word counters".

On a search results page of Google, each result has 3 main components:

1. The blue line = The meta title tag
2. The black lines = The meta description tag
3. The green line = The page URL

These 3 things can all be controlled/set by the webmaster.

Title tag

Example: <title>Free Character & Word Counter Tools</title>

The recommended maximum number of characters in a title meta tag is 65 characters.

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Description meta tag

Example: <meta name="description" content="Free Character & Word Counter Tools for search engine optimisation to increase & obtain high search engine rankings in google, yahoo, ninemsn, sensis" />

The recommended maximum number of characters in a description meta tag is 155 characters.

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Keywords meta tag

Example: <meta name="keywords" content="australian internet marketing, website consultant, website promotions consultant, website designer, internet advertising australia, seo techniques, Search Engine Optimization, website effectiveness, higher ranking tips, website quote, Melbourne Victoria" />

The recommended maximum number of characters in a keywords meta tag is 256 characters.

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Count words and characters

Use this box to count characters and count words.