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Max. length of 200 chars for description meta tag?

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21-01-2004 5:07pm

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RicardoSmith

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Why is there a Max. length of 200 chars for description meta tag?

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#2 21-01-2004 5:10pm
seamus

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To stop people overloading the description with things irrelevant to their site, in order to get more hits from search engines. The same goes for the keywords tag.

I know a few years ago, you'd look at the list of keywords on some sites, and there'd be more text in there than was in the entire site.

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#3 21-01-2004 6:01pm
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What happens if you go over 200? I assume the search engines ignore the page/site

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#4 22-01-2004 5:55pm
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Originally posted by RicardoSmith
What happens if you go over 200? I assume the search engines ignore the page/site

Typically the search engine's parser just slices the description at the limit. I think that the meta overloading took advantage of some poorly coded spiders/SEs.

Regards...jmcc

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#5 22-01-2004 9:14pm
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Ok thanks for the info.

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