I am starting a brand new blog and writing page descriptions for each post…I am guessing these descriptions are for Googlebot and not for people to read, as I cannot see the descriptions appearing on the page after I publish the post. Therefore, is it okay if I leave out capitalization, punctuation and just write a basic, not very flowery description and just keep it loaded up with the appropriate keywords?
Example—I just wrote this for one of the posts on my postcard blog. Is this sufficient, or so I have to polish these unseen descriptions up? –lighthouse landmark postcard for collectors and history buffs. norfolk, hampton virginia, on chesapeake bay
I am not sure, but I always assume that a human might be able to see what I write and so punctuation and capitalizations and spelling etc. bug me if they are not right. I have heard that Google likes you to write things that are readable by humans. but I am not an expert so take this with a grain of salt also… 😁
Oh, I think you are RIGHT! I did SO much blogging like fifteen years ago and now that you speak of making it readable, I found a few articles and I remember that what I write in the description IS going to show up to the eyes of readers. They are going to see it in search results (if I ever get so lucky). That’s where this stuff appears, on a search page. So I need to make it so someone wants to click.