Hi,

 Hey,

Description is still important. It can still be used as the snippet of text that shows up in a serp (search engine results page). Sometimes Google or other engines will use it and sometimes they will show you a portion of text from the actual page copy (usually where your search keywords are in the document). It could make the difference between somebody clicking you and not clicking you so do it properly. 153 chars max! Otherwise it wont all be displayed in the serp.

Keywords tag is next to useless, has been for years.

Its also imporant that you keep your <title> tag short and relevant to the content of the page - put the document topic first and then (if you have to) put the site name / company name after. More words = more diluted keyword weight.

If you are taking an interest in SEO then start out with this page, and read their advice documents. They basically lay out the groundwork for getting a search engine friendly page.

• http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291
  

 Hi,

The meta tags are a  important part of the HTML code of your web page.Search engines performs crawling on them.
Usually they include a concise summary of the web page content and you should include your relevant keywords in them.
 Most meta tags are included within the 'header' code of a website.
The most important tags are the
1.Title
2.Description
3.keyword's
4.Robot tags

so it is important to Optimize your meta tags to improve the searchability of your site.

Consider the following:

Title: Title provides summerized information about your site.

Description: A small description about your site will not confuse user               about your site.

keyword's : The keyword tags should contain between 4 and 10 keywords  which will be useful  to search your site with various keywords.

Robots Tag: There are four types of Robots tag listed below...

Index, Follow : The search engine robots will start crawling your website from the main page and it will continue to the rest of the pages.

Index, NoFollow : The search engine robots will start crawling your website from the main page and then will NOT continue to the rest of the pages.

NoIndex, Follow : The search engine robots will skip the main page, but will crawl the rest of the pages.

NoIndex, NoFollow : None of your pages will be crawled by the robot and your website will not be indexes by the search engines.

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Regards,
Sunil

Friends thanks for the reply,

I was doin the same thing for the past 4 years optimizing the site with all those meta tags. technicall wot all you say is right

Just a strange thought how asp.net forum could come first in all the  search results, almost for all the asp.net  issues.

Did any of you guys realise that  it is only html "title" tag that clearly added with title of the post.

Just a practical consideration.

The main site does have meta description, just not the forum section.

You dont have to use meta description, its main use is to entice users to click you in the serp.

The reason that www.asp.net can do well without following seo best practices is because they are a high page ranking website. They get indexed throughout the day - its not uncommon to see threads from the forum show up in google in under an hour.

This is mostly because of the very high amount of incoming links the site has - ie people linking to the site, posts, tutorials, etc from their blogs or websites.

What you gave is Some real practical explanation for site success harry, I was expecting something similar to this other than standard meta tags promotions.

thanks harry

What you gave is Some real practical explanation for site success harry, I was expecting something similar to this other than standard meta tags promotions.

thanks harry

I've set the meta tags dynamically on one of my sites by giving a string value to Page.Header.InnerHtml in the VB.net code behind.

It's a bit messy as the string value has to include the page title as well as any script or stylesheet references but the string value can be built using one string for the parts that stay fixed and appending other strings for the dynamically changing elements.