SEO Knowledge: Meta Description
What is a Meta Description
A Meta Description is the page/post description that is shown within the Google search results.
Meta Description Character Limit: 155 Characters
The official limit is 160 characters, but I try to keep it at 155 characters.
The Benefit of a Meta Description
By using the Meta Description feature, it gives you the opportunity to customize what is shown within the search engine results. If you don’t use a meta description, Google will use relevant content from your post or page which could potentially not look as appealing.
How to Create a Meta Description
Within the All in One SEO plugin, there is an area where you can fill in the Meta Description. This is located below the edit area of your post or page.
When creating a Meta Description, ensure you are doing the following:
- Have your keyword in the Meta Description
- Limit the Meta Description to 155 characters
- Camel Case your Meta Description. This means to capitalize each word so it stands out
- Ensure your Meta Description is captivating so the potential audience clicks on your Google search result over others.
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Once again dropping knowledge on the masses! Thank you for the clarification. Is the meta the same thing as snipets I had heard about?
Wow!! Thanks for this educational description of the meta description. I had no idea what was this SEO thing. I will now employ it on my websites.
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You've answered a question I have had for a long time. I will go back and add meta descriptions to my posts.
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I see something a bit difficult when it comes to Meta Description of duplicate and triplicate posts. For example, hymns-"Amazing Grace". There is a lot of Amazing Grace on the internet, it is as many as the number of religious groups and is indexed by Google.
Why should I include this hymn in my posts? It is because it is one of the selected hymns we love to sing. And because there is a lot of Amazing Grace indexed, my post would probably not be indexed.
As of now what I am doing is that in every hymn I post I included the name of my website. For example Amazing Grace-UCCP AKO.
When I search in Google by just typing Amazing Grace my post is not there. It is only when I type Amazing Grace-UCCP AKO and that means that it is only available to UCCP members when they visit my site. But when they just type Amazing Grace Google search will not lead them to my site.
Can I change that so I can compete with others even just in 19 of Google search?