Meta Description Tag 08-06-2015, 05:28 PM
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Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.
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A good description length is roughly 155 characters (including spaces and punctuation)
It will show like this on Google:
![[Image: meta-description-serp.gif?2c6dddd]](https://dc8hdnsmzapvm.cloudfront.net/assets/images/learnseo/meta-description-serp.gif?2c6dddd)
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Code:
<head>
<meta name="description" content="This is an example of a meta description. This will often show up in search results.">
</head>A good description length is roughly 155 characters (including spaces and punctuation)
It will show like this on Google:
![[+]](https://sinister.ly/images/modern/collapse_collapsed.png)
