A meta tag that contains a description of your site.
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Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page?
When you do a Google search, there is typically a snippet of sample content from the page. I seem to recall that the Meta Tags can influence this choice of descriptive sentences. Is that correct(?) ...
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Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage
Before we launched our website, we had set up a "coming soon" page and google picked up the title and description from its contents. So the description in the search results said, "Coming soon! Visit ...
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When is meta description still relevant?
I received this bit of advice about the meta description tag recently:
Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should ...
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New META TAGS with positive effects for seo ranking in 2011 and beyond
im trying to make an up to date chart of meta tags, for all of us, with their purposes, their use and their good (or bad) effects on search engines/being found. Also any body knows new/promising meta ...
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Using Excerpts as Meta Descriptions?
I have been blogging from the past three years. And one thing that I didn't care about was to add Meta Description for every page. I was, unfortunately, fallen for the "Google doesn't care about Meta ...
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Google Search results show one link but no description
Search for this term in Google: cop-groningen or click the link to get to the page without typing. It shows you a link at the top of the search results page: www.cop-groningen.nl/.
Below it I see ...
