{"id":2184,"date":"2009-06-23T05:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2009-06-23T05:36:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T05:36:39","slug":"the-perils-of-long-article-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/06\/23\/the-perils-of-long-article-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of long article titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a useful tip: Google’s intitle:<\/strong> search modifier only works if the search-results title\/link uses the phrase. It seems that Google is not reading the article title from your metadata, but instead reading it from the links on a larger ‘upstream’ set of search results pages. For instance, searching for intitle:”The Searchers” Ford<\/strong> will not pick up…<\/p>\n

   “Home on the Range: Space, Nation, and Mobility in John Ford’s The Searchers<\/em>“
\n   from The Japanese Journal of American Studies<\/em>, No. 13 (2002)<\/p>\n

…because the article appears in search results as…<\/p>\n

\"goog-title\"<\/p>\n

As you can see, “The Searchers” has dropped off the end of the link to be replaced with three dots. So using intitle:<\/strong> doesn’t find it.<\/p>\n

Article titles should be around 50 characters or less (inc. spaces), to fit comfortably on a Google link. Or a 500-pixel width blog column, for that matter.<\/p>\n

Google Scholar is more forgiving, only hitting the same problem at around 100 characters. But JURN works like the main Google, and so users should be aware of the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a useful tip: Google’s intitle: search modifier only works if the search-results title\/link uses the phrase. It seems that …<\/p>\n

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