Meta description too long for Yahoo Search Engine Guideline

Description

Meta description tag is too long for Yahoo. Yahoo recommends limiting your description tag to 256 characters.

Help

The major search engines all have different limits for meta description length, and these limits have changed over time. Avoid descriptions close to the limits to avoid problems when the limits change again.

Applicable standards

  • Yahoo

Change history

  • 5.36 Jan 2020 Removed - Yahoo no longer document limit on meta description.
  • 3.5 Dec 2009 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoYahooMetaDescriptionLength