Meta Description

Use of the Meta Description tag in your page headers is a very important role in ranking. The descriptions are what show up in search engines which give you a short brief 2 sentence description under your site title/url.

A good trick when optimizing your description is to use a couple keywords that you are trying to rank for. If you will look below you will see that google scopes through these descriptions as well as titles and brings them up in bold within the search. See below.

Now another trick to increase hits is to make your description catchy. Don’t just stuff it with a bunch of keywords and nonsense for it will look spammy or just not to relevant to what the user is searching for. Spice it up a bit while using your keywords within it and you will beat all other competition.

Now another factor that plays in this, as discuss in the page meta titles and body titles lesson is that in some cases, the first couple of lines in your body will show up in place for the page description. So when starting your article body off, spice it up and use keywords with in it. The search engine will list about 2 lines or 140-160 characters. use it to your benefit.