The Death and Rebirth of the Meta Description: Why SEOs Must Adapt to Google and GenAI Snippets
Executive Overview For nearly two decades, the meta description was considered an immutable pillar of search engine optimization (SEO). Webmasters, content creators, and digital marketers painstakingly crafted these 150-to-160-character HTML snippets, treating them as prime real estate to pitch searchers, wedge in stubborn keywords, and secure coveted click-through rates (CTR). Back when Google relied almost…