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seo glossary from digital now gmbh

What are snippets?

The word snippets means snippets, which is relevant in many IT areas. There are also snippets in the SERP area, which we would like to explain in more detail here. Such an element on Google is a content preview of a website that is displayed in the search results. Google often uses the meta data (description and title) as a snippet. Snippets can have an impact on the click-through rate.

What is the importance of snippets for SEO?

Snippets are important for a website and should generally be designed to be interesting and informative. If the meta data is used by Google as snippets, it is necessary that the meta description invites people to click on it. The title must also be well designed to attract people's attention.

SEOs have the task of making the website more and more successful. This also includes adapting the meta data. With regard to the meta description and title, it should be noted that these should only contain a certain number of characters. If the number of characters is exceeded, Google could automatically create a snippet from the existing content. But will such a text snippet achieve the desired goal?

However, there is also no guarantee that the metadata created will be used by search engines as snippets. Sometimes other elements such as price information and event data are also used to create snippets.