Meta Description

Part of a website’s head section typically under 160 characters and used to describe the page’s content. These descriptions are served up on SERPs and should be optimized to get engagement and click-through-rate. Meta descriptions help users see what is on the page as they appear in SERPs. A Meta Description is a type of Meta Tag but should not be used interchangeably as Tags can include many different elements that are only for crawlers.