When you search for my blog or my name, the serp will list my blog with the blog title, but instead of the description of my blog, I get the first sentences of one of my latest posts. How do I get the search engines to use my blog description instead? Thanks - jens -
so you have to set your meta tags description this might help you : How to add meta tags to your blog
Put your blog name in the meta description of your home page. The home page, about us, and contact us pages are the ONLY pages on my site where I would include the site name in the <title> and meta description. Unlike other search engines, Google does not ALWAYS display the meta description as the snippet in the SERPs. You have to optimize for this if you want your meta description to appear as the snippet. One of Google's main goals when building a SERP listing is to be able to highlight or bold ALL words from the user's search phrase in the snippet they display. So they look at your meta description to see ALL keywords from the search phrase is in your meta description. If they are then Google will typically display your meta description. If not then they construct their own by finding sentence fragments on the page that contain the various keywords from the search phrase. I ALWAYS try to include ALL keywords from my <title> in my meta description. If you've optimized your page correctly then the keyword phrases in the <title> (or slight variations of those) are going to be the the phrases most often used to find that URL in the SERPs. So if you include all of the keywords from your title in your meta description, you'll maximize the percentage of times your well constructed meta description is shown instead of some random snippet that they construct. I just posted an entry on my blog about optimizing meta description tags (err... elements) that explains what I'm talking about. Hope that helps.