Twitter's latest SEO improvement: meta descriptions 1
Posted on
May 13, 2009 by
Malcolm Coles
Two weeks ago I pointed out that all tweets and profile pages had identical meta descriptions in google.
Twitter has now implemented my suggestions (cause and effect, I'm sure):
- It uses the full text of individual tweets for the meta description.
- It uses the bio for the meta description on profile pages.
Here's how tweets used to look in Google
Titles meaningless, meta descriptions identical
Here's how they look now
Twitter now uses meaningful meta descriptions
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Nice find, and a good move from twitter. How long before Google introduces "Follow" and "Retweet" links underneath tweets in serps? I would def like to see that!