How to fix meta description too short on Squarespace
Expand every meta description to 120–160 characters so Google shows your custom summary in search results instead of auto-generating one.
Steps for Squarespace
- For a standard page: In the Pages panel, hover over the page → click the gear icon → 'SEO' tab → edit the 'SEO Description' field → Save.
- For a product: Commerce → Inventory → click the product → 'SEO' tab → edit the 'SEO Description' → Save.
- For a blog post: open the post editor → click the gear icon (top right) → 'SEO' tab → SEO Description → Save.
- For a collection/folder landing page: Pages panel → gear icon on the folder → SEO tab → SEO Description → Save.
- Note: Squarespace caps its SEO description field display at around 400 characters but Google will truncate at ~160; aim for 120–160 characters.
<meta name="description" content="Discover our full range of handmade leather wallets — slim, durable, and personalised. Free UK shipping on all orders. Shop now and find your perfect wallet.">What is meta description too short?
A meta description is the short paragraph of text that appears beneath your page title in Google search results. It is written in your page's HTML and is meant to summarise the page's content in a way that encourages people to click. When a meta description is too short (under ~120 characters), it leaves Google with too little material to work with, and Google will often ignore it entirely and pull a random snippet of text from your page body — text that may be confusing, off-brand, or unhelpful to a potential customer.
Your meta description is prime real estate in search results: it is often the deciding factor between a shopper clicking your link or a competitor's. A well-crafted, full-length description (120–160 characters) can meaningfully lift your click-through rate, which drives more organic traffic and revenue without spending a penny more on ads. Google's own documentation confirms it uses meta descriptions as a source for search result snippets, so a weak description hands control of your messaging to an algorithm. For an ecommerce store, that can mean Google shows a price, a date, or boilerplate navigation text instead of your key selling point.
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