A meta description is the short summary of a page that appears below the title in the search results. It is not a direct ranking factor, but it does determine whether people click. A good meta description is about 150 characters, contains the keyword and encourages clicks.
Google uses the meta description as an advertising line for your page. It influences your click-through rate directly: a compelling description gets more visitors from the same position. Write one per page, tailored to search intent, as part of your on-page SEO.
Not directly. Google does not use them to determine your position, but it does use them to convince visitors to click, which helps indirectly.
Keep it around 150 characters. Longer descriptions are truncated in the results.
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