& VS & - Title too long?
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It seems that SEO Moz inturprets & as the html ascii character code: & in my titles. This is pushing the titles over the limit by 1 or 2 characters in some cases. Does this matter? does google actually treat & the same way? or is this an SEO Moz bug?
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Ryan's spot-on here. The feature request forum is available at http://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-pro-feature-requests and you can add your comment over there, if someone hasn't already requested this.
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Google handles the ampersand just fine.
The & is an HTML escape character representation. Google will treat & in the title as a single character towards your title count.
I wouldn't call this issue a bug, but it is something the SEOmoz report could handle better. Perhaps you can suggest it as an enhancement request to improve the tool.
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