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Meta Description Tag - Luminary - 08-06-2015
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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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:
![[Image: meta-description-serp.gif?2c6dddd]](https://dc8hdnsmzapvm.cloudfront.net/assets/images/learnseo/meta-description-serp.gif?2c6dddd)
RE: Meta Description Tag - Kotomi - 08-19-2015
Nice tutorial on Meta tags. This will help other members for sure!
I unlocked this to see if it's worth it. If you're new it is definitely worth it.