# 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:** ![tilly](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/tilly/32/101247_2.png) [@tilly](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tilly)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/meta-description-character-limit-update/9240/3 "2019-05-07T18:17:54Z")

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We have updated the meta description optimization recommendation in our editors to be **155** characters in keeping with [Google’s most recent stance](https://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-it-shortened-search-results-snippets-after-expanding-them-last-december-298196) on recommended meta description length. This is a recommendation and not a hard limit. Please do feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

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