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January 17, 2026

# Meta Title And Description Tags for Beginners: The 5-Minute Primer

If you've never touched meta title and description tags before, here's the version without the jargon.

Google rewrites meta descriptions on the majority of search results anyway — but the ones it keeps are almost always well-written, specific, and under the length limit, which is exactly what a good generator forces you to write.

You don't need to understand everything about it on day one. Start with just this: keep titles under ~60 characters and descriptions under ~155 — not a hard rule, but the point where Google starts truncating on most screen sizes.

The most common beginner mistake is skipping it entirely because it sounds technical. It usually isn't — meta title and description tags is one of those things that looks intimidating from the outside and takes ten minutes once you actually sit down with it.

Once this feels comfortable, robots.txt file is a natural next thing to learn.

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