Hi,

On my proddetail.php page I have <meta name="Description" content="<?php print str_replace('"','"',$productdescription)?>">, but I've noticed that this produces a very long meta description when product descriptions have a lot of text. Is there a way to limit the number of characters in the meta tag?

Richard.

I'm sure it's easy and something like I use for .asp
<meta name="Description" content="<%if productdescription<>"" then response.write(Left(productdescription,165)) end if %>"/>

I'll see if I can get you a .php version of that.

***edit - https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_string_substr.asp
That should get you on track. Let me know if you need help.

Hi Richard

Another option would be to enter your meta description in the product admin page

https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/seo/dynamic-title-meta-php.asp

Andy

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Hi Dave / Andy,

I've set it to <meta name="Description" content="<?php echo substr($productdescription,0,320)?> "> which seems to work.

Thanks for your help,

Richard.

Hi Richard, it seems Google has been back and forth in the last year about how many characters it reads from meta description, but latest info suggests it's around 170 characters.
Although I must admit I am not sure about the other less popular se's.

Thanks Dave, I wasn't sure about the optimum description length but have now reduced this to 170 as suggested.

Richard.