How Long Should a Meta Description Be?
Meta description length explained: why Google has no fixed limit, why it may rewrite your text, a practical 140 to 155 character guide and good vs weak examples.
Meta description length explained: why Google has no fixed limit, why it may rewrite your text, a practical 140 to 155 character guide and good vs weak examples.
Your listing is the small ad Google writes for your page. Learn how to shape the title link, snippet, URL and rich results so more searchers choose you.
Four ways to see any page's meta tags, from View Source to developer tools and curl, plus which tags Google uses and what to check on your own pages.
Meta tags go in the HTML head; robots rules for PDFs and images go in the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header. Step-by-step code for HTML, .htaccess, NGINX and PHP.
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