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- | {{tag> | + | The meta description is a small snippet of text up to about 150 characters in length. The job of the meta description is to describe what the page is content is all about. |
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+ | * The first few words in the Meta Description are perhaps the most important and should match your title tag | ||
+ | * Write your meta description in the active voice | ||
+ | * Always include a form of "Call To Action" | ||
+ | * Make sure that the content is structured and in tune with what your page is talking about | ||
+ | * Generally speaking you're only allowed about 150 characters | ||
+ | * Repeat your key expression one or two times to make sure the message gets across | ||
+ | * The meta description should be **unique for each of your pages** or posts | ||
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+ | When it comes to looking at **[[Why_Local_SEO|local SEO]]**, the meta description should have a **mention of the local areas that you cover**. | ||
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+ | The meta description usually has **action words**. For example you may be selling a certain product and in the meta description you would add an action word to go to the sales page. | ||
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+ | The meta description should also be very **similar to the start of the text on the page** (the first heading and first words in the first paragraph on the page). | ||
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+ | The meta description is used to describe what the page is all about. It provides a summary of the content of your page. The meta description is partly used by Google for the search engine results page ([[SERP]]) when viewing results after someone has searched for something. | ||
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+ | > By optimising the meta description you can affect the way in which Google will display the results. | ||
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+ | Many people ask where are the results that Google shows on a search result are taken from? | ||
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+ | Generally speaking, the results are a combination of the meta description and what Google thinks is relevant to that person' | ||
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