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Title: What is meta description?
Post by: parker1234 on June 29, 2012, 06:51:59 AM
What is meta description?
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: sanabhatt on July 16, 2012, 12:10:02 AM
Hello...
Meta Descriptions, which are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages.
It  can be any length but search engines generally truncate snippets longer than 160 characters, For this reason it is best to keep meta descriptions between 150-160 characters.We should avoid duplicate Meta description Tags.When we type any Keyword in Google then will show title and some text below the title this text is called Meta description...
Thnx...
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: kungfudolphin on July 17, 2012, 08:41:09 AM
It's a set of HTML code that belongs inside the <Head> </Head> section of a web page. It is usually placed after the Title tag and before the Meta keywords tag. These short paragraphs are website owners probability to promote content to visitors and let them know exactly what the given web page has with respect to what they're looking for.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: ericfox on July 24, 2012, 05:14:11 AM
According to me (Meta Descriptions) how search engines list your site in engines. Generally not an influence in ranking on most engines, it still gets shown as text to support a listing in natural search and does influence click through rate and relevance.
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Post by: biber on July 30, 2012, 10:08:29 PM
Meta description use in directories submission for creating some html tags briefings.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: siyajoshi on August 29, 2012, 03:18:51 AM
Hello..
Though meta description tags are not a major factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page.The meta description tag is intented to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content.
For e.g:- <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.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: samaustin141 on August 29, 2012, 07:55:21 AM
Meta description are one way to write description of your website that is pointing in the search engine.It tells search engine what site is descried in the meta description tags.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Riyaraj on August 30, 2012, 12:17:23 AM
 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.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: maxsamuel on September 03, 2012, 05:01:23 AM
The meta description is a meta tag that is used to describe the current Web page. 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.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: ykgforum on September 06, 2012, 09:51:02 AM
Meta description is specify for description on the pages
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: khan85 on September 21, 2012, 08:13:52 AM
Quote from: sanabhatt on July 16, 2012, 12:10:02 AM
Hello...
Meta Descriptions, which are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages.
It  can be any length but search engines generally truncate snippets longer than 160 characters, For this reason it is best to keep meta descriptions between 150-160 characters.We should avoid duplicate Meta description Tags.When we type any Keyword in Google then will show title and some text below the title this text is called Meta description...
Thnx...
Nice information about meta description.As s SEO beginner it will guide to know more about meta description and also i like to share my ideas about this.. It is usually placed after the Title tag and before the Meta keywords tag.
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Your descriptive sentence or two goes here.">
Meta description tag is helps to find our page while searching in search engine to the corresponding keyword used.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: marymnewland on October 01, 2012, 03:08:33 AM
Meta description should not me bore then 250 words.
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Post by: josshray on October 02, 2012, 02:13:19 PM
Each site page have description in its back end which describe about the page type follow by the Search engines.
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Post by: prgetxhtml on October 12, 2012, 04:36:31 AM
The meta description text is a description of each page's contents. It is optional, but it is a good idea to set this for your pages to maximize their exposure to search engines. Meta Description can be the crucial catalyst in order to boost incoming traffic.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: AlexSuciuSEO on October 16, 2012, 04:51:53 AM
so you mean to say that meta description is the important part of website  ?
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: sophia01 on October 17, 2012, 05:47:40 AM
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.">
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: ushahm on December 31, 2012, 02:25:42 AM
meta description is a part of meta tag.this is actualy appears in search engine results.so we should to write attractive,convencing and sales text using our targetted keywords. :)
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: homesforsaleinedmondok on January 09, 2013, 06:09:21 PM
Short information of content or website page and these description  inform to search engines site information voluntry.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: smartkathy on February 11, 2013, 05:50:29 AM
Meta description tags, while not important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click-through from search engine result pages (SERPs). These short paragraphs are webmasters opportunity to advertise content to searchers and let them know exactly what the given page has with regard to what they're looking for.

Source: http://www.seomoz.org
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: allenhill on February 12, 2013, 07:50:56 AM
The meta description tag is intended 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.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: eGrove Systems on February 19, 2013, 06:43:09 AM
Meta Descriptions, which are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages, are commonly used by search engines on search result pages to display preview snippets for a given page.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: jamesjennifer on February 26, 2013, 02:58:36 AM
meta description tag in HTML is the 160 character snippet used to summarize a web page's content.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: bedrik on February 26, 2013, 05:11:57 AM
Meta description is a thing which we add for search engines.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: raveenasen on March 05, 2013, 03:11:26 AM
The meta description is a meta tag that is used to describe the current Web page. 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.

The meta description is used by search engines to describe the Web page in their results. If your page doesn't have a good meta description, it still could display near the top of the results, but the listing will just grab content from your page, which can end up with a link that no one clicks on.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Alex Thompson on April 29, 2013, 02:27:28 AM
The meta description is a meta tag that is used to describe the current Web page. 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.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Poster Hook on July 22, 2016, 07:38:34 AM
Meta description of your website that tells search engine what site is descried in the meta description tags.
<meta name="description" content="Brief description of the contents of your page.">
When you write a meta description tag, you should limit it to 160 characters. You should pick a style and be consistent throughout your pages, writing a unique description for each page of your site.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: samuelbett on September 09, 2021, 01:30:26 AM
Meta description is a meta tag used to describe the current web page. It provides a brief summary of the page so that readers can decide whether that page is what they are looking for or find interesting.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Citywebpuneind on November 26, 2021, 01:11:49 AM
The meta description is one of an internet web page's meta tags. With this meta information, site owners can in short caricature out the content material and best of a web page. The meta description is one among an internet page's meta tags. With this meta records, webmasters can in brief caricature out the content and exceptional of an internet page.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Iqranawaz on March 10, 2022, 03:10:18 AM
Brief summary of the webpage.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: rallison on March 16, 2022, 08:56:49 AM
A meta description is an HTML element that provides a brief summary of a web page. A page's meta description tag appears as part of a search snippet in a search engine results page (SERP) and is designed to give users an idea of ??what's on the page and how it relates to their search query.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: bergercpafirst on April 01, 2022, 04:44:45 AM
whenever you search any search queries at different search engines like Google then you see there are results coming with 3 information one is URL, other is Title and final one is meta description, it gives you an idea about result that you are going to visit.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: radhamadhavmarble on May 09, 2022, 11:19:32 PM
A meta description is an HTML element that provides a brief summary of a web page. A page's meta description tag appears as part of a search snippet in a search engine results page (SERP) and is designed to give users an idea of ??what's on the page and how it relates to their search query.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: Nexgi on June 03, 2022, 06:28:46 AM
A meta description is a short description of a blog/article which the user can see on the result page of a searched query.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: saritamagazine on April 10, 2023, 07:05:52 AM
Meta description tags usually inform and interest users with a short, relevant summary of a particular page's content. They act like a sales pitch to convince users that the page is exactly what they were looking for.
Title: Re: What is meta description?
Post by: rahul verma on March 02, 2024, 07:58:58 AM
A meta description tag generally informs and interests users with a short, relevant summary of what a particular page is about. They are like a pitch that convince the user that the page is exactly what they're looking for.