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Title: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Black Ninja on March 15, 2012, 08:34:36 AM
How many characters does Google recommend in the Meta description? I have used more than 226 characters in Meta description for every pages in the site. Is really Meta description can affect on your site keywords ranking?  Please give me suggestion, how many characters, I should use in Meta description?
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: steveschmidt85 on March 15, 2012, 09:38:22 AM
There is no harm with that much character. I think we should use variations. It wont hurt you.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: poojauni on March 16, 2012, 01:49:12 AM
Meta description should in the range of 165 and meta tag should be the range of 60 character..............
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: charlesth on March 16, 2012, 05:52:30 AM
According to me you should use meta descriptions between 150 - 160 characters. A long description will also show shortened in the search results so writing a longer Meta description is meaningless.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: gulfseo on March 16, 2012, 06:01:41 AM
If you want to make you description fit in the Google search results, it should contain 70-160 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: John23 on March 16, 2012, 06:35:29 AM
As per me meta description effective when it is unique and related to content. generally, meta description no longer then 168 characters and if you used more then, search engine not show more then 168 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: theseo on March 16, 2012, 08:25:06 AM
I think in meta description we have to use 170 to 180 key words.

thanks .
theseoindiame.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Black Ninja on March 19, 2012, 08:58:49 AM
Quote from: John23 on March 16, 2012, 06:35:29 AM
As per me meta description effective when it is unique and related to content. generally, meta description no longer then 168 characters and if you used more then, search engine not show more then 168 characters.


I appreciate your reply. You are right, now I will use only 150-168 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: steveschmidt85 on March 28, 2012, 06:17:05 AM
Quote from: theseo on March 16, 2012, 08:25:06 AM
I think in meta description we have to use 170 to 180 key words.

thanks .
theseoindiame.

its recommended lengh but you can even use more than that and it can really help
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: virtueinfo11 on April 19, 2012, 03:22:07 AM
meta description should between 175-180 is good, if we make long description that is not much important.

have to make description only using keywords that are on page content only.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: vikasbook on April 23, 2012, 09:07:16 AM
Its always advised by search engine to make simple and short description and length should not be more then 160 char anyway its seems that expert always think to make description about 170 char.  ;)
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Nichole Green on May 08, 2012, 01:08:50 AM
You can use up to 150-160 characters in the Meta description but make sure that you should use your targeted keyword in that and content should be genuine one...
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Kim_Smith on May 10, 2012, 12:13:05 AM
Yes i agree with the above post, meta description should contain 150 to 160 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: parker1234 on June 08, 2012, 03:00:55 AM
160 to 170 characters are sufficient in meta description of the page.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: bedrik on June 08, 2012, 05:23:38 AM
I think 250 characters is the good.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: tarunjangra on June 09, 2012, 01:44:10 AM
Meta description length will be in between 160-170 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: vikasbook on June 27, 2012, 07:17:25 AM
A description should be about 149 characters with keyword rich and also that focus to your customers need
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: mariyaceron on July 06, 2012, 04:42:31 AM
Most advice for how to get traffic to blogs or websites is from computer programmers who write "over our head. "
We regular folks are not dense, it's just that programmers are a pretty bright lot and  may not realize ordinary masses, who do not know code or html, find behind-the-scenes operations of a blog or website daunting. The main thing we know about code or html is that if you don't know what you are doing and mess with it, bad stuff happens!
Time after time, we have read advice on various "help" forums that repeatedly state, "If you write good content, you will have success."  While that's a nice theory, you also have to know how to work the "KEYWORD SYSTEM" to get traffic to blogs or websites. That is what we are here to help YOU with.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: sanabhatt on July 15, 2012, 11:54:39 PM
Hello..
Meta description Should be 150-160 characters.If you are using more than that then Search engine will not going to read it.Meta description is very important so it should be good and unique.Meta description is that part which appear in SERPs when we type any keyword in search engine ,the brief bio will appear after title tag that is called meta description....:)
Thnx..
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Riyaraj on August 14, 2012, 03:42:21 AM
The meta description should employ the keywords intelligently, but also create a compelling description that a searcher will want to click. Direct relevance to the page and uniqueness between each page's meta description is key. The description should optimally be between 150-160 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: siyajoshi on August 18, 2012, 03:34:59 AM
Hello...
You can put 150-160 characters in meta description........:)
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: ykgforum on September 06, 2012, 09:53:55 AM
175 character use in meta description
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: hilliernrox on September 13, 2012, 06:09:10 AM
It should be between 150- 160 and the important thing is it should be a meaningful and user friendly.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: marymnewland on September 18, 2012, 02:15:31 AM
I think there should be at least 250 characters.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: josshray on October 02, 2012, 02:20:03 PM
I think 60 are enough for better Meta description.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: ushahm on December 31, 2012, 02:27:58 AM
i think it should be 180 character.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: icecube media on February 01, 2013, 04:48:33 AM
I think 130 to 140 characters are enough for the meta description.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: roger4321 on February 26, 2013, 08:52:33 AM
maximum character for the description is 155 characters.  see to that your main keyword covers within the allotted limit. 
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: expertSEO on April 09, 2013, 01:59:47 PM
Hi

The character limit in the meta description as suggested by Google is 165. Writing more than prescribed will not harm but in SERP only the first 165 will be shown.

Thanks
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: vshah1585 on April 25, 2013, 08:58:40 AM
You can use up to 155 characters in meta description. You should follow Google guide lines for meta description.Because if your meta description exceed to 155 then it will removed by Google. Meta description is important to attract a user to visit our websites.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: bradely on April 26, 2013, 12:23:05 AM
Use a properly written description, or googles Panda algorithm may penalise you for spamming keywords
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: jordenstive on May 03, 2013, 05:31:03 AM
According to me these tags do not actually have a fixed size according to the W3C. However all search engines suggest that these are no more than 155 characters, including spaces.


Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: TommyBenvolio on May 06, 2013, 06:41:47 AM
The Meta Description should be 120-130 characters. We can use more than that but it is not meaningful.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: Graham on May 08, 2013, 09:38:00 AM
The meta keyword should be more than 250 and meta description 350 at all, you can be seriously penalized for that.
Title: Re: How many character in Meta description?
Post by: ushahm on May 15, 2013, 02:40:43 AM
we can use 180 character in meta description.:)