How to Use the HTML Meta Description Tag ~ Web Guide

How to Use the HTML Meta Description Tag

What is the Meta Description Tag? Meta Description Tag is a short but to the point short story of the data of webpage/ website. In ‘content’ part of meta description tag website developer explain the website / web page in 2 to 3 sentences or up to 200 characters.

This summary should be relevant to web page / website. This tag is so important because when visitors search for related phrases then search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) display the description information in the result of search result.

Where should Add Meta Description Tag?

Meta description tag is placed in Head portion of HTML document / web page. Between head tags <head> and </head>.

<html>

<head>

<meta name="description" content=" ">

</head>

<body></body

</html>

Meta Tag Description Example

This is meta description tag use in HTML source of following webpage:

(A) Keyword for web search

(B) Keyword found in the title tag

(C) Keyword found in the meta description tag.

Example of a meta description tag of webindata

It is important to use content related keywords in meta description tag, so that website found under those keywords. When a search engine spider locates a certain keyword on website and in meta description tags, it values that this word is vital and used as keyword. At the end result website will be positioned higher in the search index.
Each page of website must have relevant title, relevant meta description and content related keywords. Include all keywords and phrases that are related to the content of specific webpage. It is a tough job but it’s so important for each webpage/ website.

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