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January 3, 2026

# The Serp Snippet Preview Checklist: What to Verify Before You Publish

Run through this before you consider SERP snippet preview actually done:

1. Preview both desktop and mobile truncation — mobile cuts titles and descriptions shorter, and what fits on one doesn't always fit the other.
2. Front-load the value proposition in the description within the first ~120 characters, since that's the safest zone before truncation risk increases.
3. Preview against the actual page's current title and meta tags, not draft copy — small differences (extra punctuation, brand suffix) shift the truncation point.
4. Re-check the preview any time you update a page's title or meta description as part of a content refresh.
5. Double-check this after any site migration or major redesign, not just at launch.

None of these individually take long. The value is in doing all of them, every time, instead of remembering most of them most of the time.

Pair this with the UTM tracking parameters checklist if you're doing a fuller pre-launch pass.

SERP Snippet Preview Tool runs through most of this automatically.

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