A snippet gives more information about what a webpage is all about, it gives some information about the webpage and what the article is all about. When a user search for a specific query, search engines returns a bunch of links matching the keywords used in the query. Below every link search engines gives a snippet so people can read the snippet and decides whether it is good to visit the webpage or not. That's why snippet is so much important.
Search engines mostly search entire web page to return a relevant snippet according to the search query and in some cases the text used in snippet comes from your meta description tag. That's why you need to write a good search description for your blog posts.
Write for People as well as For Search Engines
Search engines are not real people they are robots that don't have feelings, they are not strong enough to understand pronounce and they don't have feelings. You need to use special writing methods so search engines can understand you. For writing a good description for search engines, make sure that your description is relevant to your post title as well as your post content. Also make sure that the description is relevant your blog niche.
Make It attractive
Snippet is very small to read and also it gives all the required information about the blog post so most of the people read entire snippet. You need to write a attractive description. Take an example of advertisers; they use attractive words to attract their customers. The same things you need to do to make your snippet more attractive. After using attractive words in snippet you will get more visits.
Make it Look Different
When we search for query we get a bunch of links and all the links are closely connected to a single topic and all the links looks same and also the snippet when below each link is also same, when you are writing a blog description make sure that it is different from other links, don't copy other ones search description. Make it look unique and different than others.
Write Short meta Description
Don't write too large descriptions. Google uses first 66 character of your title tag(including spaces) and for snippets, Google uses first 156 characters of your search description(including spaces), so It is a good idea not to write big post description, instead you should use only 156 character long search description. Yahoo shows up to 72 characters of title tag and 161 characters of meta description. Bing uses 65 characters of title tag and 160 characters of meta description tag. Things may change in upcoming time. Some people say that length of meta description tag is longer than we think, but I had seen many blogs using short meta description tags.
Do a Keyword Research
Before writing a search description, do a keyword research and include some good keywords in it. But, remember that you should use relevant keywords and not to do keyword stuffing in search description
So, these are some tips to write good meta description for a blog post, please leave your comments below if you knows better ways to write better meta description.
A snippet gives more information about what a webpage is all about, it gives some information about the webpage and what the article is all about. When a user search for a specific query, search engines returns a bunch of links matching the keywords used in the query. Below every link search engines gives a snippet so people can read the snippet and decides whether it is good to visit the webpage or not. That's why snippet is so much important.
Search engines mostly search entire web page to return a relevant snippet according to the search query and in some cases the text used in snippet comes from your meta description tag. That's why you need to write a good search description for your blog posts.
Write for People as well as For Search Engines
Search engines are not real people they are robots that don't have feelings, they are not strong enough to understand pronounce and they don't have feelings. You need to use special writing methods so search engines can understand you. For writing a good description for search engines, make sure that your description is relevant to your post title as well as your post content. Also make sure that the description is relevant your blog niche.
Make It attractive
Snippet is very small to read and also it gives all the required information about the blog post so most of the people read entire snippet. You need to write a attractive description. Take an example of advertisers; they use attractive words to attract their customers. The same things you need to do to make your snippet more attractive. After using attractive words in snippet you will get more visits.
Make it Look Different
When we search for query we get a bunch of links and all the links are closely connected to a single topic and all the links looks same and also the snippet when below each link is also same, when you are writing a blog description make sure that it is different from other links, don't copy other ones search description. Make it look unique and different than others.
Write Short meta Description
Don't write too large descriptions. Google uses first 66 character of your title tag(including spaces) and for snippets, Google uses first 156 characters of your search description(including spaces), so It is a good idea not to write big post description, instead you should use only 156 character long search description. Yahoo shows up to 72 characters of title tag and 161 characters of meta description. Bing uses 65 characters of title tag and 160 characters of meta description tag. Things may change in upcoming time. Some people say that length of meta description tag is longer than we think, but I had seen many blogs using short meta description tags.
Do a Keyword Research
Before writing a search description, do a keyword research and include some good keywords in it. But, remember that you should use relevant keywords and not to do keyword stuffing in search description
So, these are some tips to write good meta description for a blog post, please leave your comments below if you knows better ways to write better meta description.
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