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title: "Social Media & Blogging Tip: Complete Meta Descriptions"
description: "Social Media & Blogging Tip: Complete Meta Descriptions
The same tool that makes search engine results stand out improves the appearance of social media posts, too."
---

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# [Social Media & Blogging Tip: Complete Meta Descriptions](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/social-media-blogging-tip-complete-meta-descriptions)

 Written by [Kristin Jones](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/author/kristin-jones) | June 11,2018

Social media is a natural medium for sharing the business blog posts you write to add content and boost SEO power on your business website. Every [blog post](https://www.jonespr.net/lp-business-blogging-do-this-not-that) you write should be shared multiple times over the course of a few days, weeks or months in order to increase potential traffic.

Maximizing the number of clicks your blog posts get from social media starts with ensuring you’ve set up your blog posts and pages appropriately, so that they display properly and attract visitors when shared on social media.

When you [share a blog post on Facebook](https://www.jonespr.net/inboundaccelerator/blog-titles-with-these-numbers-get-the-most-social-media-shares-) or other social media, the platform pulls in the page’s meta description — the same bit of information that appears in search results. Without a meta description, Facebook may instead simply display whatever text appears first on the page, which won’t necessarily be the attention-grabbing, descriptive content you need to inspire readers to click through.

Since you want your blog posts/pages to be enticing, both on social media and in search results, it pays to take time to write a meta description for each one.

Learn more about meta descriptions, rich snippets, Schema mark up and other tools that enhance the appearance of your search results and social media shares to increase click-through and conversion rates. [Download our cheat sheet here](https://www.jonespr.net/microdata-schema-rich-snippets-cheat-sheet).

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  },
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