You ship a page, Google indexes it, and then your title shows up cut off with an ellipsis in the search results. Or worse, your carefully written meta description gets replaced entirely. Most of the time the cause is boring: the title or description was the wrong length. Here is what actually gets truncated, the numbers that matter, and how to check any page in a few seconds. Why length matters at all Google gives each search result a fixed amount of room. Go over it and the e...