What are meta descriptions and do they still matter?

[Sankara Vignesh]

What are meta descriptions and do they still matter?

[ramskl]

A meta description is an HTML and XHTML element that describes your page to search engines.

[RH-Calvin]

A meta description is an HTML and XHTML element that describes your page to search engines. While the perceived (and real) importance of meta data has depreciated, the attribute still plays a significant role in SEO rankings.

[varunindia88]

Meta descriptions use in On Page SEO this is use for landing page. Meta descriptions should be around 155 to 16 charters.

[ethanmillar]

Definitely, Meta descriptions still matter a lot in Google for getting good rank

How To create meta description for you web pages ?

Try to include all your targeted keywords in meta descriptions and create descriptive descriptions within 150-160 characters including spaces.

[djone]

Meta description is a short description of your web page which helps search engine to show that what your web page is about. Generally, google show meta description oof just 150 to 160 characters so you have to describe your page into that limits.