Yes, meta description is very important as visitors will come to know about the website from this detailed summary of the site. Meta description is short summary about the website which provides information related to the site.

Meta description tags, while not important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click-through from SERPs. These short paragraphs are a webmaster’s opportunity to advertise content to searchers and to let them know exactly whether the given page contains the information they're looking for.

The meta description is a meta tag that is used to describe the web page in their result. It provides a short summary of the page so that readers can decide whether the page is what they are looking for or looks interesting.

Meta Description tag is a snippet of HTML code in a web page header that summarizes the content that is on the web page. The meta description is usually placed after the title tag and before the meta keywords tag.

Don't focus too much on meta tag description as Google uses more webpage content! But make sure you have it optimized to the max with the keywords you are targeting :)

your website should move higher in the SERPs. ... meta description tag does play an important role in improving a site's search rankings.

Meta description is a Meta Tag that is use to describe to current web page. it provide short summray of web page.

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages.

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This is the description that shows up with the site title. It also shows up as a site summary in many search engines so it has to be carefully designed. It should be a maximum of 170 to 200 words and should be descriptive yet concise and catchy.

Meta Description plays an important role in on-page optimization. Its main aim is to give Google and other search engines an overview of the page to easily understand it.