Meta description too long for Bing Search Engine Guideline

Description

Meta description tag is too long for Bing. Bing recommends keeping the description text under 160 characters in length.

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

• Bing

Change history

• 6.50 Oct 2023 Removed since Bing webmaster guidelines no longer specify a limit.
• 5.36 Jan 2020 Take X-Robots-Tag into account.
• 5.3 Sep 2013 Fixed false positive.
• 5.1 Jan 2013 Updated to match Dec 2012 Bing webmaster guidelines.
• 4.2 Dec 2010 Added.

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

Rule ID: SeoBingMetaDescriptionLength