🔍 Overview
When OTTO SEO generates page titles through the task list, it follows built-in SEO best practices and targets a default character range designed to keep titles descriptive and keyword-rich while displaying correctly in Google search results.
If your generated titles feel too long or do not match your brand's style, this article explains how to raise this with the support team so they can apply the appropriate constraint for your WordPress integration.
⚙️ What Controls Title Length
OTTO's title generation behavior — including character length constraints — is configured at the project level. The exact settings available to you may vary depending on your plan and how your WordPress site is connected to Search Atlas.
Because the specific controls for title length constraints are configured on the backend for your OTTO project, the most reliable path to adjusting them is to contact the support team directly with the details below.
📋 What to Have Ready When You Reach Out
To help the team apply the correct title length constraint for your project as quickly as possible, please have the following information ready:
- The name of your OTTO project or connected WordPress site
- The title length or character range you would like OTTO to target (for example, "under 60 characters" or "between 50 and 65 characters")
- Any example titles that were generated and feel too long, so the team can confirm the current behavior
- Whether you need this change applied to all future titles or only to specific pages
💡 General Guidance on Title Length
While the support team can assist with applying specific constraints to your project, keep the following in mind when deciding what range to request:
- Google typically truncates titles that exceed around 60 characters in standard search results, so shorter targets are often preferable for display purposes.
- Being specific in your request (for example, "titles under 60 characters") produces more predictable results than a vague preference like "short titles."
- Style preferences — such as avoiding the brand name in titles or using sentence case — can also be communicated to the team at the same time.
If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.