What are meta descriptions? What is the meta description tag?

[Vineeta]

What are meta descriptions? What is the meta description tag?

 

[auraiyaitsolutions]

Meta Title & Description tags are important on-page SEO factor for site ranking.

 

[SEONinja]

A 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.

 

[v.shukla]

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise summaries of webpages. They commonly appear underneath the blue clickable links in a search engine results page (SERP).

 

[sadianisar]

Meta Description and it's tag are the essential On-Page SEO element. Meta Description usually describes the content of the website to search engine and user as well. It is important to utilize.

 

[Keerti]

Though meta description tags are not a major factor search engines consider when ranking sites, they should not be left off the page. Both the meta keywords tag and the meta description tag contribute to your search engine ranking, and the meta description tag influences the liklihood that a person will actually click on the search engine results page and visit your site. The meta description tag is intented to be a brief and concise summary of your page's content.

 

[zorbee]

The meta description is a ~160 character snippet, a tag in HTML, that summarizes a page's content. Search engines show the meta description in search results mostly when the searched for phrase is contained in the description. Optimizing the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO.

 

[manishaverma]

Meta tags are a great way to provide search engines with information about sites when any user finds you on search page. Meta tags can be used to provide information , and each system processes only the meta tags they understand and ignores the rest.

 

[jenerous]

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise summaries of webpages. They commonly appear underneath the blue clickable links in a search engine results page (SERP).