Google’s John Mueller said that while it is useful for site owners to add meta descriptions to their web pages, it is “definitely not a requirement,” he added. The usefulness comes from sometimes writing a meta description, “helps you to figure out a clear focus for a page,” John wrote on Reddit.
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