The meta description is a snippet of up to about 160 characters, which summarizes a page’s content. Meta descriptions don’t appear on the page itself, but only in the page’s source code. Search ...

Many marketers have difficulty with the writing portion of their jobs – and writing concise copy is even more challenging. Meta descriptions are an essential part of a successful SEO strategy, but it ...

Metadata remains a cornerstone of digital marketing in 2026, shaping how pages appear in search results and social media ...

Meta descriptions, as most marketers know, are HTML attributes that explain a webpage’s content with a relatively short summary. Until December 2017, that “short” summary was recommended to be only ...

Meta description HTML elements (also known as meta description tags) are generally understood to have limited SEO value. In the past, having duplicate meta description elements sitewide were said to ...

"The way I think of it is you can either have a unique meta tag description, or you can choose to have no meta tag description, but I wouldn't have duplicate meta tag descriptions," according to ...

Page titles and meta descriptions aren’t the most exciting SEO tactics to focus on. However, truly optimized page titles and meta descriptions are rare. Focusing on the small details of your SEO ...

The meta description is highly important to your online marketing strategy in general, but very few people realize this or take the time to invest in this particular area. What is particularly strange ...

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around the META description. There is no doubt that most search engines look and use the META description on some level. Google and Yahoo and Live Search may use ...

Dynamical.biz translated a new eye tracking study done Spanish (PDF here) of how searchers look at the search results on a search results page. Here is the break down of the study, but before you look ...