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What is a Meta Description?

It’s the wording that shows in your Google result.

It’s 156 characters or less. (At least that is the maximum Google will display.)

If you don’t have an actual “meta description” tag in your page HTML, Google will take text from your page to make one. That can often results in a nonsensical description on your Google listing.

Here’s what the naked HTML looks like in case you are wondering: