Are meta descriptions really that important?

blueygg said:
How many people are actually using meta descriptions and seeing SEO benefit?
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I recommend descriptions between 50–160 characters, meta description tags can have a significant impact on your search engine optimization efforts.
 
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would you ever pick up a book unless you read what's behind the cover? you would probably look at what is written behind the cover to know the content right? meta descriptions work that way! though they do not directly impact the page's ranking factor but they do have a significant role to play in a page's SEO. while you write relevant and accurate meta descriptions it helps you improve site's click through rate from search engines!

Good luck!
 
Meta description tags while not important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click through from search engine result pages. Search Engine Land uses a lengthy meta description on their homepage and sometimes uses them on their posts.
 
Yes, it's a very visible and important part of search marketing.
 
meta description tag serves the function of advertising copy. It draws readers to a website from the SERP, and thus is a very visible and important part of search marketing. Crafting a readable, compelling description using important keywords can improve the click-through rate for a given webpage
 
Yes, meta descriptions are important, don't leave something up to Google.
 
The meta description is very crucial for every page and optimizing the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO. Although it does not work for Google’s keyword ranking process, the meta description is a bridge to the customers.
 
Your meta title, H1 & URL are way more important in that case.
But meta description is meant to make your page look sexy, and get a higher click rate.

Soooo. That's important to get visitors ;) But not that much in SERP rankings
 
A good meta description can massively affect your CTR. I would focus on getting more clicks rather than pure SEO of your metas.
 
Meta description is also a very important fro part of on page seo
 
Google had announced its fixing some stuff with the indexing bots. Plus, I don’t think there is any faster way of indexing pages other than submitting them to Google Search Console (GSC). Any tool that claims to index fast is a scam! Just post quality content and do proper on-page and off-page optimization. You have very little control of the backlinks.
 
blueygg said:
How many people are actually using meta descriptions and seeing SEO benefit?

I ask because Google auto generate the descriptions depending what keyword people type in.

Do you use meta descriptions or leave it up to G?
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G is a son of a bitch!! Even if you will use meta description,google will also auto-generate the descriptions on its own according to the keyword results.

So doesn't really matter but you should put your meta description just for the sake of SEO, you know!
 
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