# Meta description: character limit update

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/meta-description-character-limit-update/9240>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** content-seo\
**Created:** [June 25, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/meta-description-character-limit-update/9240 "2018-06-25T07:59:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![SvenVanbrabant](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/svenvanbrabant/32/13213_2.png) [@SvenVanbrabant](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SvenVanbrabant)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/meta-description-character-limit-update/9240/1 "2018-06-25T07:59:51Z")

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A few months Google started showing [longer meta descriptions](https://moz.com/blog/googles-longer-snippets) in search engine results. Up to 320 characters.

It seems that Google is now shoring shorter descriptions again: [Meta descriptions are going to be shorter again • Yoast](https://yoast.com/shorter-meta-descriptions/)

The character limit counter for meta descriptions is still set to 300 in HubSpot. Will this be updated shortly?

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