Google Meta Update 2017 – Google has increased Meta Description Length to 320 characters.
The Meta Description length is 320 characters. Google is fetching from either from Meta tag or first paragraph of your page description.
The Meta title length is 70 characters. It also depends on pixels of the title length.

http://www.thedigitalland.com/google-meta-description-length-doubles-320-characters/

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Google is still rewriting our title tags. In fact, according to a study it’s happening about 61% of the time. That’s nearly as often as Google is rewriting the lowly meta description.

Here’s what Google said about the title tag rewrites when they were announced in August 2021.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/08/update-to-generating-page-titles

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Rank Math can help you write the perfect meta title and description, but, at times, Google simply decides to ignore your description and features a more relevant one from your page. https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/

This video will guide you through writing better descriptions to increase the chances of being featured in search results.

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Table of Contents
0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – How to Edit Meta Title and Description
1:29 – Checking If Changes Are Indexed
2:06 – Why Should You Add Meta Description
2:41 – How to Increase the Chances
3:22 – How to Write Better Descriptions

Case Studies:
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► https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/how-often-google-ignores-our-meta-descriptions.htm

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Is it necessary for each single page within my website to have a unique metatag description?
Walter, Leiden, Netherlands

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