Meta Keywords and Description

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    what is meta keywords and description ?
     
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  2. capstonic

    capstonic Well-Known Member

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    These tags always describe about your services that you give to the visitors & also meta description is used by the Google algo to show in the search results for various searches.
     
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  3. TheMissingLink007

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    The Keywords Tag is where you list keywords and keyword phrases that you've targeted for that specific page.
     
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    Meta Keywords - list of your targeted keywords for a certain web page.

    Meta Description - includes a marketing sentence based on your targeted keywords. According to Google, the quality of your snippet — the short text preview Google displays for each web result — can have a direct impact on the chances of your site being clicked (i.e. the amount of traffic Google sends your way).
     
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    Meta information is the very basic component on on-page optimization of a website. This is where you "tell" the search engine spiders, in a concise manner, what that particular page is about. Your meta titles and descriptions is what most of the time gets served up in the SERPs to the end user - your potential client.
     
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    Meta tag is also part of On-page Search Engine Optimization. It contains three parts Title, Description and Keywords and description is snippet of our web page. This tells summery of our site. So it should be written in proper way because if it is not written in proper way, then it is possible that we can loose some amount of traffic.
     
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    Meta description is summary of your web pages for User and It also help in Ranking. It should be effective with including your target keywords.
     
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  8. Vineet Koushik

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    Meta Description Tag:
    A meta description is the short website summary that shows up below the hyperlinked titles in the SERP These summaries simply describes the website as whole, a particular page or section.

    Meta Keyword Tag:
    Meta keywords are a list of keywords that pertain to a certain page. The extent to which meta keywords influence rankings in Google is a controversial issue. However, its inclusion with proper construction can still be beneficial.
     
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    Vineet Koushik, May 9, 2011 IP
  9. SSC

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    that's very well explained by others. between; meta keywords is used to provide targeted keywords to the search engine crawlers
    and meta description helps crawlers to provide a neat description of your webpage to your website visitors
     
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  10. sundeep.shetty03

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    Meta Keywords -- is that U Tells Search Engines that this Page is been Targeted For This Particular Keyword
    Meta Description:- Helps To Know About Ur Services Or Any Message Through your Website And also Helps To Rank In search Engines
     
    sundeep.shetty03, May 9, 2011 IP
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    yes , keywords , list fo your targeted keywords for a cetain web page ; description , is a short description about your site .
     
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    meta description still works, but don't bother that much using meta keywords.
     
    crisT, May 10, 2011 IP
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    These tags will indicates the search engines on what is your web page is about. Also, meta description will be displayed as SERP's snippet.
     
    Tessa_86, May 10, 2011 IP
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    Meta Descriptio tag is the summary of the website which shows that what is the purpose of this site.
     
    Ayesha Anam, May 10, 2011 IP
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    META:Keywords,Description is the set of key words and snippet of the web page according to the HTML format is knkown as Meta keywords and Meta Description.
     
    property, May 10, 2011 IP
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    Title and Description are the 2 most important things in SEO from my own experience - Not to be overlooked!
     
    Mike4, May 10, 2011 IP
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    The role of meta tag now seems not so big, is important both title and description tags, very important, and there's content is displayed in search results, as the search results description, attractive for the user title bring more traffic
     
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    These are the tag that use to tell search engine about the page
     
    indiarajasthan, May 27, 2011 IP
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    it is what you do need if you have site and it encourage your visitors to click to your site if you have a good attractive descripiton
     
    flipperman, May 29, 2011 IP