Amanda Murray — July 14, 2017 Follow @amanda1murray — July 14, 2017 What if there was a way to improve click-through rate, drive more traffic to your website, and better delight users, all in 160 characters or less? It’s all possible when you take the time to add well-crafted meta descriptions to your website. In … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Meta Descriptions
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Why Should You Improve Your Meta Descriptions? Because Google Says So.
Amanda Clark — June 12, 2017 Follow @GrammarChicInc— June 12, 2017 Here’s a lesson from SEO 101: When Google makes announcements or recommendations, it’s always best to listen. Believe it or not, Google tries to help Web developers, marketers, and small business owners thrive in their SEO efforts, and that includes all aspects, ranging from … Continue reading Why Should You Improve Your Meta Descriptions? Because Google Says So.
4 Things to Include in Your Meta Description
Amanda Clark — May 3, 2017 Follow @GrammarChicInc— May 3, 2017 Do you know what a meta description is? It may sound like an overly technical term, but really it’s not. Here’s how SEO Moz describes it: “Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise summaries of webpages. They commonly appear underneath the blue clickable … Continue reading 4 Things to Include in Your Meta Description
Everything You Need to Know About Meta Descriptions
Kasia Perzyńska — January 2, 2017 — January 2, 2017 What is Metadata in HTML Metadata is information about your HTML document that isn’t visible on a page, but is in the search results. Metadata usually specifies the page description; author of the asset; the date of publication or the date of the last update; … Continue reading Everything You Need to Know About Meta Descriptions
How to Create the Best Meta Description
by Michiel HeijmansOctober 13, 2016 The meta description is a ~160 character snippet, a tag in HTML, that summarizes a page’s content. Search engines show the meta description in search results mostly when the searched for phrase is contained in the description. Optimizing the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO. What … Continue reading How to Create the Best Meta Description
Meta: The Crown that Makes Content King
by Corey Young July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Warning: This post is about to get meta The terms “Title” and “Meta Description” are often thrown around in articles about search engine optimization (SEO), many of which give advice on how to use these “tags” to take your strategy to the next level. But what are … Continue reading Meta: The Crown that Makes Content King
The “meta” content formatting cheat sheet guide
Columnist Quinn Whissen offers guidelines on how to format your online articles to help you decrease your editing time, improve the quality of your content and better optimize it for search. Quinn Whissen on June 27, 2016 at 12:34 pm Every day, sometimes multiple times a day, I find myself editing content. I comment on, … Continue reading The “meta” content formatting cheat sheet guide
Google Increases Title and Meta Description Length in Search Results
by Eric Seal May 18, 2016May 18, 2016 You know all about the proper meta description length and title length, don’t you? After all, you’ve been doing it for years. 55-60 characters in the title, and 155-160 for the meta description have been the standard for as long as we can remember—but it seems the … Continue reading Google Increases Title and Meta Description Length in Search Results
Guide to Meta Descriptions
by Erik Krass May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 All right, let’s talk about meta descriptions! Now you may be scratching your head wondering what a meta description actually is, but chances are you already know. In fact, you’ve most likely seen quite a few today. You know when you Google something and you see a … Continue reading Guide to Meta Descriptions
Demystifying Meta Tags in 3 Easy Steps
by Paul Mauer February 6, 2016February 6, 2016 You don’t have to be a digital maverick to have stumbled across the term “meta tags” in today’s marketing lexicon. But whether or not you know the details of what meta tags are, why they work, and how to implement them for your business success is another … Continue reading Demystifying Meta Tags in 3 Easy Steps