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meta-description.too-short

InfoSEO audit

Meta description is shorter than the configured minimum (default 70 characters).

What to change

Expand the description so it summarises the page content and its value to the visitor.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule meta-description.too-short

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "meta-description.too-short"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable meta-description.too-short on the command, or disableRules: ["meta-description.too-short"] to a tool.

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