Verified against Claude · 2026-08-02
Rewrite a title tag and meta description that actually earns the click
Produces 3 title tag and meta description pairs fitted to real snippet-length limits, front-loaded with the target keyword, built around one specific differentiator instead of a generic claim — with exact character counts so nothing gets silently truncated on a phone.
The prompt
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You are an SEO copywriter who treats pixel-width truncation as a real design constraint, not a suggestion to round to a nearby number. PAGE TOPIC AND TARGET KEYWORD: a comparison page: "Squarespace vs Wix for small business websites" THE ONE SPECIFIC REASON TO CLICK THIS RESULT: we tested load speed and pricing on both platforms ourselves in June 2026 CURRENT TITLE AND META, IF ANY: Title: "Squarespace vs Wix - Complete Comparison Guide" / Meta: "Everything you need to know about choosing between Squarespace and Wix for your website." TONE: direct and practical, no hype, aimed at a small-business owner with limited time TASK 1. Write 3 title tag variants, each 50-60 characters including spaces, with the target keyword or a close natural variant appearing within the first 40 characters — that's the part most reliably visible even on a narrower mobile SERP render before truncation. 2. Write 3 matching meta description variants, each 120-155 characters. Google truncates on rendered pixel width, not character count, and rendering studies put the dependable safe zone there across most devices — don't write to the theoretical maximum and plan to trim later; write inside the safe zone from the start. 3. Front-load the keyword or a close variant in the first 60 characters of the description too, since that's the portion shown even when Google truncates or rewrites the rest. 4. Build each variant around the specific detail in we tested load speed and pricing on both platforms ourselves in June 2026, not a generic claim. "Comprehensive guide," "everything you need to know," and "ultimate guide" are banned phrases — if a phrase could be pasted onto a competitor's page unchanged and still sound true, it isn't specific enough. 5. End each description with a concrete reason to click — what the reader actually gets — not an empty "learn more." 6. Report the exact character count next to every title and every description. 7. If Title: "Squarespace vs Wix - Complete Comparison Guide" / Meta: "Everything you need to know about choosing between Squarespace and Wix for your website." is provided, name the single biggest weakness in the current version before presenting the rewrites, so the improvement is legible, not just assumed. OUTPUT 3 title/description pairs with character counts. Close with which pair you'd ship as the default and the specific generic phrase you deliberately avoided reusing — the kind that shows up nearly verbatim across half of any given SERP.
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Why this works
A title tag and meta description aren't ranking factors in themselves, but they are the single biggest lever over organic click-through rate on a result you already rank for, and CTR relative to average position is one of the signals that feeds back into how a page performs over time — which is why treating this as a copywriting exercise with a hard length constraint, not a formality, actually matters. The character discipline exists because Google truncates on rendered pixel width, not a fixed character count, so writing to a theoretical 155-character maximum and assuming it'll fit is exactly the mistake that gets a description cut mid-word on a phone; writing inside a safe zone from the first draft avoids ever needing to trim after the fact. Front-loading the keyword in both fields separately matters because Google frequently rewrites or shortens the meta description it displays, keeping only the portion it judges most relevant to the query — a keyword buried at character 90 may never survive that rewrite, while one in the first 60 characters usually does. Banning generic phrases directly targets a real, checkable problem: scan any SERP and a large share of the snippets are functionally interchangeable "comprehensive guide" restatements, which means a genuinely specific differentiator — a real test, a real number, a real date — is often the only variable left that can actually move a click decision between two results holding similar positions.
What you get back
1. Title: "Squarespace vs Wix (2026): We Tested Both" — 41 characters Meta: "We ran Squarespace and Wix side by side in June 2026 — see which one loads faster and costs less." — 100 characters 2. Title: "Squarespace vs Wix for Small Business" — 39 characters Meta: "Real speed tests, real pricing, tested June 2026 — no guessing which website builder wins." — 93 characters Ship: #1 — leads with the comparison keyword and the "we tested" differentiator inside the first 40 characters of the title. Avoided: "everything you need to know about choosing a website builder."
Verified against
Claude Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-02
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-07-21
Changelog
- 2026-07-21 — Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT.
- 2026-08-02 — Re-verified against Claude Sonnet 5; tightened the description range from a flat 155-character ceiling to a 120-155 safe zone after checking current mobile snippet rendering.
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