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Will Google cut off your article headline? Check it before you publish

Google trims long headlines with three dots, and measures width, not letters. This shows you where the cut lands everywhere.

Google only shows so much of a headline before it trims it with three dots — and it measures in width, not letters, so you can’t tell by counting. Facebook and X trim it differently again. If the important words are at the end, nobody sees them. This shows you exactly where your headline gets cut everywhere, and points out a few other things that quietly hurt you.

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