What are meta descriptions and do they still matter?

[salman gee]

hello friends i have no idea to meta descriptions and do they still matter please guide me...??

[RH-Calvin]

Meta description is the description that is displayed against your website in search engines. Defining the meta description is an important on page task that helps to improve your website presence in search engines.

[edwina]

Meta description is a short notes about your site.

[nomanali]

Yes meta description still matters. If meta description is missing then search engine will pickup random text from your website to show in search results.

[Fadia Sheetal]

Meta Description is one type of short description about your Web site. And that is matter for the Search Engine.

[eunicemadeline]

Meta Tags do matter a lot in the SERP. Only if you give appropriate keywords in the Meta Tags the search engines will consider them as relevant and boost up the rankings in the SERP for your keywords.

[HARR]

Metadata means "Data about data". So meta description is a short data about your website. I am not an SEO gure so I can't conform if it matters or not but I have been on various SEO forums and most of the guys there said it does not matter anymore as search engines have become more and more smarter.

[jane1]

Title, description, and keyword are meta tags that are essential for indexing of a website and its different webpages. They still very useful and matter a lot.

[beastlinks777]

Meta description matters most than meta keywords, as you will notice in every search engines they only display title tags and meta descriptions and domains.

[rohitnagpure336]

Meta Description = About website's details in shorts over search engine Result page.
it is most important factor in SEO.

[PeteMrcus90]

Hello friends, Meta title and description shows in SERP. So, highly attractive Meta Tags written by SEO Experts (http://seoexperttim.livejournal.com/667.html) are most fruitful for SEO and high conversion. Thanks

[davidweb09]

Yes, Because Google reads only Meta Title & Description for site ranking.