Edit your SEO Title, Description, and Schema

The SEO tab is where you control what people see in search results, which is not the same thing as what your article says.

Open it from the SEO tab in the right-hand panel, or from Meta tags in the editor toolbar. They open the same place.

Three Sections

• SERP Preview, showing how the result will look.
• Meta Fields, your title and description.
• Schema Markup (JSON-LD), the structured data.

SERP Preview

Shows your URL breadcrumb, meta title, and meta description as a search result.

Use it. A title that reads well in the editor often reads badly truncated in a result, and this is where you notice.

Before you fill the fields in, the preview shows placeholders: "Your meta title preview" and "Your meta description preview will appear here."

Meta Title

Maximum 60 characters, with a counter. The guidance shown is "Ideal: 50-60 characters".

As you type, the field tells you where you stand:

If your primary keyword is missing or buried, you are told directly: "Add your keyword near the start so Google ties this title to your target query."

Writing a Good One

Front-load the keyword. Not for the algorithm's sake alone, but because truncated titles lose their end.

Do not repeat the H1. The meta title competes in a list of ten results. The H1 has already won the click.

Say what the reader gets. "Boiler replacement cost in 2026" tells someone what they will find. "Everything you need to know about boilers" does not.

Meta Description

Maximum 160 characters, with the guidance "Ideal: 120-155 characters". The same length feedback and keyword warning apply.

The description does not affect rankings directly. It affects whether anyone clicks, which affects everything else.

Write it as a reason to choose your result over the nine others: what the article answers, and what makes it worth the click.

Regenerate Meta

Regenerate meta rewrites both fields from the current article.

Useful after you have substantially edited the piece, since the original metadata was written against the original draft.

This is included rather than charged as a separate action, and it is listed on the price list as "SEO title and description" with a fair-use allowance.

Schema Markup (JSON-LD)

The structured data sent with your article, which helps search engines understand what the page is.

Generated automatically. You do not need to touch it, and most people should not.

If you do:

• Edit JSON-LD opens it for editing.
• Copy JSON-LD script copies it out.
• Reset to generated schema restores what NarraSEO produced.

Keep Reset to generated schema in mind. Invalid JSON-LD is worse than none, and reset is the way back.

Copying Fields

Each field has a copy control, useful when your CMS needs the values pasted in rather than published through an integration.

Notes

There is no slug field in this panel. Your URL is determined by your CMS when you publish.

Metadata is saved with the draft and sent when you publish, for platforms that accept it.

The character limits are what search engines display, not hard technical limits. Going over means truncation, not rejection.

Meta fields are separate from your article's H1. Editing one does not change the other.

Worth Doing before you Publish

The two-minute version:

1. Open the SEO tab.
2. Check the title is under 60 characters, leads with the keyword, and reads as a reason to click.
3. Check the description is 120 to 155 characters and answers "what do I get".
4. Glance at the SERP Preview.

This is the highest-return two minutes in the whole editing process, because it is what determines whether anyone reads the article you just paid to write.