SEO: Is there a limit to how long titles/descriptions should be?

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Published on 2010-09-17T08:28:44Z Indexed on 2011/02/20 23:32 UTC
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I am trying to fill up title and meta description for my Tumblr blog.

The way I will do that is via the themes.

For the title, it isn't too much of an issue, I can just get the title for the post although some post types do not have titles.

The main question is about the description. I am thinking of using the start of the body content. For now, there is no way to limit the length of body content. I wonder if its OK to have the whole body in the description?

I have contacted Tumblr support to suggest that they have a way of creating limiting text length in their template tags.

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