Major Change To Serps Results
Google has made a significant update to its search engine reuslts pages or SERPS by lengthening the titles and descriptions, as reported by Jennifer Slegg at the SEM Post and Ross Hudgens on Twitter. However, Google could quite easily reverse this at any time!
So, what are the changes: Title tags have been increased to 70–71 characters, which is up from its previous 50–60 characters. In your google Search Results meta descriptions have been increased by 100 characters per line, up from 160 to potentially 278 characters for those extended from two to three lines.
What Does This Mean? Well, it allows you to craft a good offer to help increase your conversions.
How Google Chooses Titles For Search Results?
Below is a video by Matt Cutts where he discusses the criteria that Google uses dispaly titles it shows in the SERPs depending on the query.
Is Your Website Showing Up in Google When Your Customers are Searching for You?
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