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June 19, 2026

# SERP Snippet Preview Tool: Common Mistakes and Best Practices

Most problems with sERP Snippet Preview Tool aren't caused by not knowing what to do — they're caused by small, easy-to-miss mistakes that compound quietly over time. Here are the ones that come up most often.

Mistake 1: Writing titles and descriptions to fit perfectly at desktop width while ignoring how they truncate on mobile, where the majority of searches now happen.

Mistake 2: Assuming the preview is exactly what will display in Google's results — it's Google's best current rendering, not an absolute guarantee it won't rewrite the snippet.

Mistake 3: Never revisiting snippet previews after a rebrand or URL structure change that alters how titles display.

The fix for most of these isn't more effort, it's a regular check. A few habits that prevent them from creeping back in:
- Preview against the actual page's current title and meta tags, not draft copy — small differences (extra punctuation, brand suffix) shift the truncation point.
- Re-check the preview any time you update a page's title or meta description as part of a content refresh.

Worth reading alongside this: our guide to SEO-friendly URL slugs, which covers the adjacent side of the same part of a technical SEO audit.

SERP Snippet Preview Tool catches most of this automatically, which is the easiest way to stop these mistakes from shipping in the first place.

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