What are meta descriptions? What is the meta description tag?

[santino6250]

Though meta description tags are not a major factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page. Both the meta keywords tag and the meta description tag contribute to your search engine ranking, and the meta description tag influences the liklihood that a person will actually click on the search engine results page and visit your site.

The meta description tag is intented to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content. Think of the Yahoo! directory. You see your site title followed by a brief description of your site or business. The meta description tag is designed to provide a brief description of your site which can be used by search engines or directories. The meta description tag takes the following form:

<meta name="description" content="Brief description of the contents of your page.">

When you write a meta description tag, you should limit it to 170 characters or 200 characters at most. You should pick a style and be consistent throughout your pages, writing a unique description for each page of your site. The Open Directory (DMOZ) also a detailed guide to writing descriptions. Click here to learn about the DMOZ style. The key is that you want your description to adhere to W3C standards and be relevant to the content of the page. Again, it is intended to provide a brief summary of the contents of the page.

Watch Piranha 3DD Movie Online | Watch Piranha 3DD Online

[johnzaci]

Thanks for Information!!
Description is one thing which crawler read when you optimized your site. Though it never support as more but it helps a little bit

[jamestobin]

The Meta description tag design provides a brief description of your site through search engines or directories. The Meta description tag takes the following form:

[jameslarry]

Very good explanation about meta tag and descriptions. They play great in ranking our website, i heard now a days new algorithm wont give importance to meta tags. Only site title is very important for primary ranking google.

[jonemike]

thanks for share great information.

[ronwinfrey]

The current Meta description tag is envisioned to be a short-lived and succinct summary of your web based site page's content. This is the reason of the Yahoo index.

[bobfields]

The gist of your blog’s content needs to be reflected by the tag meant for Meta description. Just see through Yahoo. You will come across a summarized gist following the title.

[scatteredpixels]

Informative post for newbies in SEO field, Meta tags (especially Meta description and meta keywords) are a thing which should be consider in every page of a website.

[Maxcollin]

Hi thanks for the discussion i am please to read the meta tag information as i am looking for the information and you have explained it in a good way. I hope to read more such informative discussions.

[jimwest15]

The existing Meta description tag is intended to be a short-lived and concise swift of your web based site page's online content. This is the aim of the Yahoo directory.

[ralphrobbins]

The indented Meta description tag is the concise summary of web content. Think about Yahoo!’s directory. You look at your site title, a brief description of your site or business.

[chrisjay]

Thanks for sharing, but i already know about that

[bobwest89]

Now it is important to have the best of flexibility of the Meta description tagging. Having an envisioning is extremely important here. This is really going to show result on the Yahoo indexing.

[johnwinfrey2]

The meta description tag is intented to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content. Think of the Yahoo! directory. You see your site title followed by a brief description of your site or business.

[researchonindia]

meta description tag is a short HTML paragraph that provides search engines with a description of page