12 Real Meta Description Examples From Page 1 Results
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Few lines of text can take your website traffic to new heights the way that meta descriptions can.
Maxing out at 160 characters, meta descriptions are pithy HTML attributes that summarize the content of a website page when it comes up in search results and other shareable formats.
Before displaying search results, Google has to crawl the content on your site. It examines meta tags—which usually include a meta description—to show a preview of the content on its own site. In the end, these descriptions appear below the page title in search results to give users a preview of what to expect when clicking a link.