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Google Officially Changes Snippet Length in SERP

DSweat1

Published on December 2, 2017

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I was scrolling through Google+ today and came across an interesting article.

The author basically says that instead of Googles result pages only showing 160 characters, it's now been increased to 230 characters on average.

Here's a link for further reading: https://searchengineland.com/g...

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My question for you guys is does this mean we should start adding the extra 70 characters to our meta descriptions on new posts?

It seems like if this news is true that would probably be the best practice in order to be more visible in the SERP.


I hope this information is helpful and look forward to hearing your guys' responses!

Thanks,

Dom

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