Search engine optimization tip: have a descriptive meta description between 100 and 150 characters.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:59

This is a medium priority SEO tip.

This search engine optimization tip is important for your website for the following reasons:

As you know the meta description of your pages is is displayed as a description of your website in their index (search engine result pages). That's why the meta description should be very descriptive.

For a good search engine optimization you should use the keyword phrase no more than 2 times inside your meta description. Once the first words of your meta description and the second time more close to the end.

You should avoid making it to short or to long. The recommended meta description length is between 100 and 150 character. The characters number displayed by search engines as description in their index is limited..

Avoid making the meta description as an enumeration of words separated by coma, or meaningless sentences, because it may be interpreted as keyword stuffing and search engines hates it. For that you have the keywords meta tag.

Search engines use the description meta tag as the description in their index. So it's important to describe your pages accurately. This helps customers find your pages, and search engines to index them.

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