Comments on: Short Meta Descriptions Can Kill Your Website

By: Asho

Asho — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:38:30 +0000

GWT is showing 200 short meta description errors… i don’t know what to do… my site is very new and now i am getting 2-5 visitors per day… do i need to change the meta descriptions??? because it is difficult to edit 200 pages…

By: Sam Orchard

Sam Orchard — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:13:53 +0000

Too many people disregard meta descriptions as unimportant because search engines don’t take their content into consideration. They don’t realise that this is prime real estate to big up your website – this is how you can entice the user to click that link.

Being #1 for a keyphrase is pointless if noone clicks.

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By: Watches

Watches — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:39:20 +0000

The minimum required should be about 148 characters, at least this is what Google reads.

By: SEO Wales

SEO Wales — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:16:11 +0000

Thanks for this post.

I had a very similar experience with an ecommerce site that had nearly 4000+ pages with short meta descriptions. Once I had done a bit of jigging about with data and a bit of programming and three month later I’m down to just over 100. And I have to say rankings have been slowly improving.

The only piece of info I can’t seem to find is what’s the minimum required to not be flagged up in Webmaster tools?