Arrest Warning for SEO Meta Description

[Honeybadger]

You have the right to provide an appropriate meta description. Your meta description will be compared with your on-page content, to be used in Google search engine results pages. You have the right to monitor your competitor's meta description before adding your own meta description. You have the right to use a keyword volume tool while composing your meta description. If you do not provide a meta description, one will be appointed for you before and will be shown in Google Search (or not). If you decide to ignore the meta description now and publish your content without a meta description, you may stop ranking in Google at any time.

Credit for wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

 

[azgold]

Will Matt Cutts' replacement come to my house to handcuff and interrogate me? Kinda scary. I promise to be good, just keep them away please.

 

[Graybeard]

/s </sarcasm>
Google is not sovereign and has no 'arrest' powers. Just Fu*k you over powers --just like social media. <that point is valid.

Google just has the option to do what they please,within their often arbitrary dictated policies, and more importantly; allowed within the laws where Google operates (jurisdiction).

So arrest warning is a joke. /s

 

[azgold]

So arrest warning is a joke. /s

I know. So was my response.

 

[T J Tutor]

WOW! It's so hard to get opinions out of you guys!

 

[Graybeard]

I know. Google is the one being dragged into court all the time and being investigated constantly by government regulators.

 

[azgold]

I know. Google is the one being dragged into court all the time and being investigated constantly by government regulators.

Maybe we can go handcuff and interrogate them! That could be fun.

 

[Honeybadger]

Will Matt Cutts' replacement come to my house to handcuff and interrogate me? Kinda scary. I promise to be good, just keep them away please.

Matt Cutts isn't human imho
He is robot experiment from secret Google R&D lab
But if you blind or just listen to audio --> good SEO info

 

[azgold]

Matt Cutts isn't human imho
He is robot experiment from secret Google R&D lab

That's hilarious!! And probably true, LOL.

 

[Graybeard]

That could be fun.

Up against the wall Googlers!

 

[T J Tutor]

A page's meta description should intelligently (read: in a natural, active, non-spammy way) employ the keywords that the page is targeting, but also create a compelling description that a searcher will want to click.

Copied and pasted from Moz.com!

 

[Honeybadger]

Will Matt Cutts' replacement come to my house to handcuff and interrogate me?

@azgold
Being handcuffed and interrogated in my own home by Matt Cutts is probably the most troubling thing I have read on this forum

 

[Honeybadger]

Well, in theory, meta descriptions do not affect SEO. This is an official statement from Google, released in 2009. However, since meta descriptions show in the search engine results, they can affect CTRs (click through rates), which are linked to SEO & rankings.

Quotes from Google on January 12, 2021 -->

• "Create good meta descriptions"
• "Make sure that every page on your site has a meta description"
• "Create descriptions that accurately describe the specific page"
• "Make sure your descriptions are truly descriptive"
  
• "High-quality descriptions can be displayed in Google's search results, and can go a long way to improving the quality and quantity of your search traffic"

Source (Google Search Central) --> developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/good-titles-snippets

 

[Honeybadger]

meta descriptions do not affect SEO

That's simply not true !!
I suggest that you spend more time here --> developers.google.com/search
Become an SEO expert, it will be worth it