Meta Description

Hi,

I am new in SEO, I want to know about META Description and what is his role ??

 

You could have typed into Google "what is meta description" and got your answer in less time that it takes to make this post.

Start here: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo

 

Meta Descriptions is the brief bit of text that shows up on a search engine like Google after your title tag. The meta description can be set for your homepage as well as other pages, collections, web pages and blog posts using the Shopify admin.

 

Meta Description is show on search when your website show in search.provide info about website

 

I usually leave it empty and force SE's to pull their own based on the content of the page and the search query. However, my home pages, I do write something that will pull in visitors.
Opinions may very on that though.

 

Meta-description is a meta-tag that you place on the header of your page. This contains a brief description of what your webpage is about. Placing your target keyword on your page's meta-description increases on-page SEO.

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

 

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.

The meta description should employ the keywords intelligently, but also create a compelling description that a searcher will want to click. Direct relevance to the page and uniqueness between each page’s meta description is key. The description should optimally be between 150-160 characters.

 

Meta description are the content of your website that are being displayed in the result page.

 

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.Read this link http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description.

 

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. You can set this text from the Page Details area.

 

Meta Description is useful to inform a short description of your page to search engine. meta description is very useful for getting index or crawl your website.

 

As said before, its really important for CTR (click through right). If you don't spend enough time on it, you might be missing many clicks due to laziness.

 

lol You are aware that ads are served based on what the user has recently searched for right? Not there meta description...

 

A very good point. As Google more and more just chooses what's relevant based upon the query for the snippet, the meta description is becoming less relevant, but rather the focus is for on-page content. What Google chooses is going to contain the keywords, so it's likely to have relevancy to the searcher (whereas the meta description may not as it can't be all-encompassing).

 

I think description is just like a small introduction of the website for the search engine spider to know about the website.

 

Meta tags are the html code which are inserted into header of the web page after the title tag. Meta Tags help search engines to index your site better so people can find you. If you don't have meta tags in your Web pages then a lot of search engines will not even see your Web site and no one will come. They are one of the most essential parts of your Web page, if you want people to come to it.

 

Important meta tags in SEO are Meta title, Meta Description and Meta Keywords.
Meta Title- that is visible with browsers.
Meta Description:- Meta descriptions are visible in search result when u search through query.
Meta Keywords Tags:- contain list of primary and secondary keywords of website pages.

 

The meta description is a meta tag that describes your Web page.

 

I think if we can get about 30 more people to say the same thing we will be good...[/sarcasm]

 

Hello,
I think meta description is play a main role in the SEO, you are write good description for your website and put in the on-page then start SEO after some time you can see help meta description in your ranking.