eBay Listing Title Analyser
eBay gives you 80 characters and tells you to use them. It also requires every word to refer only to the item for sale. Paste a title and see where yours sits between those two rules.
Findings named in the policy carry real consequences
eBay lists four possible responses to a search manipulation breach: removing the listing, issuing a warning, restricting activity, and account suspension. It promises no order between them. The rules behind each finding covers what to change. Where a whole catalogue carries the same pattern, that is the work we do.
Titles eBay publishes as good
These are eBay's own examples, not ours. Click one to run it through the checks.
Rules quoted from eBay's search manipulation policy and Seller Center, last checked 24 August 2026.
What this tool actually knows
Worth reading before you trust a green result, because the honest limits matter more here than on a calculator.
eBay publishes no list of banned words
It publishes rules. Every check here is our reading of one of those rules, which is why each finding shows you the wording it came from. Anyone selling you a definitive list of forbidden eBay title words has made it up.
Nothing flagged is not the same as approved
The rule that matters most cannot be checked by software at all: every word has to be accurate and refer only to the item for sale. Only you know whether the brand in your title is really the brand in the box.
Three severities, not a score
Named in policy means eBay's wording covers it directly. Your call means it is allowed in conditions we cannot see, such as which category you sell in. Wasted means it breaks no rule and simply spends characters that could hold something a buyer searches for.
Compatibility wording is context dependent
Fits, for and compatible with are allowed before the name of the item yours works with. They are not allowed before brand names in jewellery, clothing and accessories, or for universally compatible items. The tool can spot the phrase, but not your category, so it hands that one back to you.
The character budget is a rule too
eBay gives you 80 and says to use as many as you can. A short title is not safe, it is unfinished. The bar turns green past 60 characters because that is roughly where a title stops leaving obvious searches on the table.
Your title never leaves the page
The checks run in your browser on the text you paste. Nothing is transmitted, logged or stored, which matters when the thing you are pasting is unreleased stock.
The same mistake, four hundred times
Title problems almost never appear once. They arrive from one template or one supplier feed and land across the whole catalogue, which is what turns a listing issue into an account issue.
An eBay Canada store took C$1,991.69 over 31 days, up 166% on the prior month. Promoted Listings produced 98.1% of it, which is the growth and the risk in the same number.
An eBay AU store went from being barely surfaced to 829,607 impressions and 109 units sold in 90 days. Promoted Listings carried two thirds of the visibility and 97% of the units.
Negative feedback and late shipment flags were appealed on eBay's own evidence and removed, ratings included. The eBay AU account now reports a 0.00% transaction defect rate and a 0.00% late shipment rate.
Questions about eBay listing titles
Every rule quoted on this page comes from eBay, and every judgement about it is ours. Where the two differ, eBay wins.
Send us the report.
We will tell you how far it spreads.
Your report is already in the message box. One title is a five minute fix. The same pattern on four hundred listings is a different job, and it is the one that puts accounts at risk.