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Meta Description Best Practices for SEO

By Gabe |

Editing meta description on a blog post

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What is a Meta Description? If you’ve ever done an online search then you’ve seen a meta description (several, actually). Just about every search result will contain the title of the page, the URL of the page, and the meta description. Check out this image, specifically the haphazardly highlighted section: In laymen’s terms: A meta-description…