Comments on: Getting Clicks: Write a Better Meta

By: Jayne Pleysier

Jayne Pleysier — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:48:13 +0000

I do read the meta descriptions when googling to ensure that the site which has come up is relevant to what I want to click on. It is amazing how many websites have really poor meta data which is nonsensical – so they get totally disregarded immediately.

By: Jazz Salinger

Jazz Salinger — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:51:47 +0000

Hi Don,

Good point. It really can’t do you any harm. If someone is looking at the search engine results pages; your meta description may just capture their attention. So, it makes sense to try and write something interesting.

By: Don White

Don White — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:33:02 +0000

I have seen various arguments for and against the meta description. However, I’m of the opinion that the meta description won’t do you any harm and it may be beneficial with some of the search engines, so go ahead and use it.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

By: Peter Damien Ryan

Peter Damien Ryan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:20:19 +0000

Meta tags are things like the title, headers, description, tags on images etc

I pinched the following from the net.
A meta tag is a line of HTML coding that contains metadata about a webpage. Meta tag information doesn’t change how the page looks; it won’t be seen by the website viewer, unless they are viewing your source code. There are two common types of meta tags — meta description tags and meta keywords tags.

These mainly refer to the title, keywords and description tags. They are summary of the content that is on the page in different formats. Metatags content does play a role in rankings for many search engines.

By: Jody Chambers

Jody Chambers — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:59:08 +0000

Hey Guys, just so I have my terminology right..meta desription is the first few lines of the first paragraph and meta tags are the keywords in the meta desciption…is this right? So they meta description of this page would be… “If you’re not making it to top spot in Google for your desired keywords but you have a great meta description, you might get just as many visitors.”
Or am I copletely off track? m/