Etsy allows 140 characters in a listing title, and filling them is no longer the advice: Etsy favours a title that reads as a product, and a shopper sees about the first 60 characters anyway. This free grader scores a title on the structural rules that decide whether it works: whether it is short enough to read as a product rather than a keyword list, how many real keywords sit in the weighted opening, repeated words that spend characters without buying a new search term, capitals and separator spam that read as keyword stuffing, whether the title is built from phrases people actually type, and — if you paste your tags too — whether the title and the tags agree. It runs instantly in your browser with no account.
Grade your title
How to use it
- Paste your title — Put the title in as it would appear on the listing. The character count and the 140-character limit update as you type, and the grading runs on every keystroke — there is no button to press.
- Paste your tags too, if you have them — The tags field is optional and comma separated. Filling it adds one more check: whether the words opening your title also appear in your tags, because a title and a tag set that disagree split the relevance signal instead of reinforcing it.
- Look at the search preview — The preview shows roughly what a shopper sees before the title is cut off. This is the part sellers never look at, because their own listing page shows the title in full.
- Work through the checks — Each check passes, warns or fails with the reason: keywords in the weighted opening, repeated words, capitals and separator spam, and whether the title is built from phrases people type rather than commas between lone nouns.
- Pair it with real keyword research — The score grades how well the title is built, not whether anyone searches the words you built it from. That needs live marketplace data, which no free tool has.
The problem this solves
Title advice is folklore, and the most repeated piece of it — use all 140 characters — is the piece Etsy has moved away from. Sellers are still told to fill the limit, separate with pipes and repeat the main keyword, and all three now actively hurt. Worse, a bad title pattern gets copied across a whole shop before anyone tests it, so one wrong habit costs forty listings rather than one.
What it does
The opening, weighted properly
Checks how many real keywords land in the first 40 characters, and calls out a title that opens with "Beautiful" or "Unique" — words nobody searches for, occupying the space that carries the most weight.
Repetition, counted honestly
Flags any word used more than once, ignoring stop words so "for ... for" is not reported as stuffing. Repeating a keyword does not rank it higher; it spends characters that could have matched something new.
A search preview
Shows roughly what a shopper sees before the title is cut off, which is the part sellers never look at because their own listing page shows the title in full.
Phrases, not word soup
Etsy matches multi-word phrases, so a title that is commas between lone nouns matches fewer real searches than one built from phrases. The check counts single-word fragments and says so.
Title and tags read together
Paste your tags and it checks whether the words opening your title also appear in them. A title and a tag set that disagree split the relevance signal instead of reinforcing it.
No live search data, deliberately
It grades how well a title is built, not whether the words are ones people search. That needs marketplace data and would make a free tool cost money per use — so the page tells you to pair it with real keyword research instead of pretending otherwise.
Where it lives in PSDmate
Free and open on this page. Inside PSDmate, titles are generated per design from the rendered image rather than pasted across a shop, which is what stops one title habit becoming forty identical listings.
Questions
How long should an Etsy title be?
Etsy's limit is 140 characters and it is a hard limit, not a target. Etsy now favours a title that reads as a product, and roughly the first 60 characters are what a shopper actually sees. Aim for about 70 to 110 characters: lead with what the item is, then add two or three more phrases a buyer would actually type — style or subject, where it hangs, who it is for. Stop there. A word used twice buys nothing, and the tags carry the rest of the rooms and occasions.
Should I use all 140 characters?
No — that advice is out of date. A title stuffed to the limit reads as keyword spam to Etsy and to the shopper, and everything past the first 60 characters is written for a machine rather than a buyer. Unused characters are not wasted: a clear 60-character title beats a 140-character list of every term you could think of.
Do separators like | and , affect Etsy SEO?
Etsy treats them as breaks between phrases, so they are useful in moderation and harmful in excess. A title chopped into ten fragments reads as a keyword list rather than a product, and shoppers skip it — which costs you the click-through that actually feeds ranking.
Does repeating my main keyword help it rank?
No. Etsy does not rank a listing higher for saying a word twice, and the second use spends characters that could have matched a different search. The one exception is a genuine phrase variation people really type, which is a different term rather than a repeat.
Is ALL CAPS bad in an Etsy title?
It buys nothing in search — matching is case-insensitive — and it costs you in readability, because shoppers read shouting as spam. Title case or sentence case both work fine.
Does this tell me which keywords to use?
No, and be wary of free tools that claim to. Knowing whether a phrase has real search volume needs live marketplace data. This grades the structure of the title you wrote; picking the words is a separate job covered in our keyword research guide.
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