Posted by Karl Groves on 10/04/53 11:55

"william.clarke" <william.clarke@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1155507661.939412.209160@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

> Recently (in the last few years) I've found that META descriptions tend
> to get ignored, with quite a few search engine's it is what you entered
> as a site description when you submitted the site that gets displayed.
> This is apparently because META tags have been heavily abused by the
> adult content market which tended to copy dictionaries into both the
> keywords and the decription attributes. Some search engines still trust
> META tags, but you often need to read the fine print on their websites
> to find out. Sorry this is probably a little off topic and doesn't
> really solve your problem.
>
>

Meta descriptions do not get ignored completely. They're still used by
google when your site comes up in search results, in order to display the
description of your site.

They are, however, completely ignored when it comes to ranking of sites.

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Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com

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