meta description
An HTML meta tag used to describe a web page's content to search engines and platforms. It is often used by search engines as a reference for snippets and may also be reused in on-site listings, RSS readers and social previews.
Timeline (last 90 days)
The meta description is merely a suggestion to the crawler; search engines decide whether to use it based on the query terms and context, or excerpt body text themselves to generate a summary; but in on-site list cards, RSS readers, and some social previews it is often reused directly.
Bulk rewriting of meta descriptions to align with user queries produced no meaningful improvement in AI citation.
Meta descriptions can influence click-through rate presentation in traditional search but are almost entirely absent from the semantic vector computation process.
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The meta description is merely a suggestion to the crawler; search engines decide whether to use it based on the query terms and context, or excerpt body text themselves to generate a summary; but in on-site list cards, RSS readers, and some social previews it is often reused directly.
50%UnverifiedBulk rewriting of meta descriptions to align with user queries produced no meaningful improvement in AI citation.
50%UnverifiedMeta descriptions can influence click-through rate presentation in traditional search but are almost entirely absent from the semantic vector computation process.
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