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Meta description length outside 50–160 characters

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Why it matters

Google truncates long descriptions and may ignore very short ones in favour of page text. This is a heuristic, not a Google limit.

How to fix it

Summarise the page in one or two sentences of about 50–160 characters.

References

void seo reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in <head>, self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates.