8 February 2012

Importance of Description Tag


In this discussion I will try to tell you what is the Importance of Description tag. If you are a web designer, then you will definitely be well known with the Meta tags. Description tag is one of them; you can say that Description Tag is one of the vital part of on-site SEO. Description tag is a snippet of HTML code which has a relationship with inside the  <head> </head>   part of a webpage. Your description tag can appear in following form:

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="brief description of your webpage contents.">

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When you are going to write your Meta description tag, keep in mind the words must be relevant to your page content and the keywords should be limited to 170 characters or 200 characters with the maximum limit.
Despite the fact that the Description Meta tags do not have a direct impact on your website ranking, but it still got much importance because this tag is responsible and can play a vital role in providing you a lot of traffic.  It is not enough to bring the site on top page of search engines, after achieving this goal, the ultimate target is to enforce the user to click on your site. And this target can be achieved by relevant, unique and precise description of your page.

description Tag
Description Tag

Now when we are talking about the Importance of Description Tag, let me tell you one thing, the major operation of a Description tag is to inform your visitor what type of content is your webpage owns.
The description for every page on your web site must be different and unique so that it can drive the relevant traffic to your website. Another Important use of Description Tag is that, the description tag can be used frequently by social media marketing sites like Google+, Twitter and Facebook etc. 

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