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How long should a meta description be?
Meta descriptions should remain roughly 315 characters in length, or about 4 lines of 512 pixels. An easy way to remember the length of your meta descriptions is it should roughly be 4 times the length of your title tag being that the title tag is 512 pixels wide and the meta description is the same thing, but on four lines.
Are meta descriptions still important for SEO?
Meta descriptions are still important because this is what users see in the search results and this is related to SEO in two ways. First, a good meta description will encourage users to click and visit your website and this means more traffic.
Did Google shorten meta description length?
It appears that Google very often creates a meta description by itself, based on the first paragraph of your article. Update May 2018: Google decided to shorten the length of the meta description again, read here what – not – to do. What did we do?
What is a good meta description?
A good Meta Description (or description META TAG) is a brief description of the contents of a web page usually written in plain-language in the form of a sentence. The description may appear visibly on a search engine results page, so care should be taken to ensure it’s clearly written and accurately reflects the true content of a page.