Comments on: Meta-description writing for SEO http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html A Study in Content SEO Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Copywriting http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-816 Copywriting Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:29:11 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-816 Everyone was talking about that meta tags are not effective these days for google rankings but I guess they were all wrong. I just added meta description tag to one of my sites and made it keyword dense. Guess what, I climbed up to 2nd page from 10th. Out of 1.860.000 results..<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('816','Copywriting'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('816','Copywriting','Everyone was talking about that meta tags are not effective these days for google rankings but I guess they were all wrong. I just added meta description tag to one of my sites and made it keyword dense. Guess what, I climbed up to 2nd page from 10th. Out of 1.860.000 results..'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Everyone was talking about that meta tags are not effective these days for google rankings but I guess they were all wrong. I just added meta description tag to one of my sites and made it keyword dense. Guess what, I climbed up to 2nd page from 10th. Out of 1.860.000 results..
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]]> By: Ani http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-551 Ani Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:17:19 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-551 Article is great as usual but pic is not big enough :( This is not going to help atracting the attention of some other sectors who really need a help in optimised content writing like truck drivers, plumbers, blacksmiths...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('551','Ani'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('551','Ani','Article is great as usual but pic is not big enough :(\nThis is not going to help atracting the attention of some other sectors who really need a help in optimised content writing like truck drivers, plumbers, blacksmiths...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Article is great as usual but pic is not big enough :(
This is not going to help atracting the attention of some other sectors who really need a help in optimised content writing like truck drivers, plumbers, blacksmiths…
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]]> By:   3 good SEO-related posts by Usable Words Blog http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-547   3 good SEO-related posts by Usable Words Blog Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:51:57 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-547 [...] same guy who wrote Title tags for dummies does the same thing for meta descriptions. These 2 posts won’t get you a top Google rank by themselves, but at the very least [...]<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('547','  3 good SEO-related posts by Usable Words Blog'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('547','  3 good SEO-related posts by Usable Words Blog','[...] same guy who wrote Title tags for dummies does the same thing for meta descriptions. These 2 posts won’t get you a top Google rank by themselves, but at the very least [...]'); return false;">Quote</a></div> [...] same guy who wrote Title tags for dummies does the same thing for meta descriptions. These 2 posts won’t get you a top Google rank by themselves, but at the very least [...]
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]]> By: Ramon Eijkemans http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-539 Ramon Eijkemans Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:07:01 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-539 hi Ruben, you're absolutely right. It's so obvious that I forgot to mention it explicitly :p Update: added it to the article. Thnx 4 pointing it out!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('539','Ramon Eijkemans'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('539','Ramon Eijkemans','hi Ruben, you\'re absolutely right. It\'s so obvious that I forgot to mention it explicitly :p\n\nUpdate: added it to the article. Thnx 4 pointing it out!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> hi Ruben, you’re absolutely right. It’s so obvious that I forgot to mention it explicitly :p

Update: added it to the article. Thnx 4 pointing it out!

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]]> By: Ruben http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-537 Ruben Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:00:01 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-537 Is it me, or do your examples all suck? :) If you don't include the query keywords in your meta description, Google won't even show it, since it's not relevant. I think you should've at least mentioned this as the, well, #1 requirement of a meta description. If you don't use the proper keywords, you will have done all the work for nothing, since Google will just patch together his own description. Or am I jumping a bit too fast and forgetting something? :)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('537','Ruben'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('537','Ruben','Is it me, or do your examples all suck? :) If you don\'t include the query keywords in your meta description, Google won\'t even show it, since it\'s not relevant. \r\n\r\nI think you should\'ve at least mentioned this as the, well, #1 requirement of a meta description. If you don\'t use the proper keywords, you will have done all the work for nothing, since Google will just patch together his own description.\r\n\r\nOr am I jumping a bit too fast and forgetting something? :)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Is it me, or do your examples all suck? :) If you don’t include the query keywords in your meta description, Google won’t even show it, since it’s not relevant.

I think you should’ve at least mentioned this as the, well, #1 requirement of a meta description. If you don’t use the proper keywords, you will have done all the work for nothing, since Google will just patch together his own description.

Or am I jumping a bit too fast and forgetting something? :)

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]]> By: Ramon Eijkemans http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-533 Ramon Eijkemans Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:47:12 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-533 Hi Angus, Tanner: thnx! I will probably write more 'for dummies' posts because I like to explain basic concepts as clearly as possible. I haven't previously planned on writing a series about it, but it does seem to get picked up rather well, so i'll probably milk it to the bone ;)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('533','Ramon Eijkemans'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('533','Ramon Eijkemans','Hi Angus, Tanner: thnx! I will probably write more \'for dummies\' posts because I like to explain basic concepts as clearly as possible. I haven\'t previously planned on writing a series about it, but it does seem to get picked up rather well, so i\'ll probably milk it to the bone ;)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Hi Angus, Tanner: thnx! I will probably write more ‘for dummies’ posts because I like to explain basic concepts as clearly as possible. I haven’t previously planned on writing a series about it, but it does seem to get picked up rather well, so i’ll probably milk it to the bone ;)
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]]> By: Angus - Usable Words http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-532 Angus - Usable Words Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:36:28 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-532 Thanks for that - I've been referring to your title tag post a lot, and this is just as helpful.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('532','Angus - Usable Words'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('532','Angus - Usable Words','Thanks for that - I\'ve been referring to your title tag post a lot, and this is just as helpful.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Thanks for that – I’ve been referring to your title tag post a lot, and this is just as helpful.
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]]> By: Tanner (does Utah marketing) http://searchwritten.com/meta-descriptions-dummies.html/comment-page-1#comment-531 Tanner (does Utah marketing) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:22:09 +0000 http://searchwritten.com/?p=54#comment-531 Great guide for anyone who doesn't know much about META description tags. It would be great to write a collection of "dummies guides" for META tags.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('531','Tanner (does Utah marketing)'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('531','Tanner (does Utah marketing)','Great guide for anyone who doesn\'t know much about META description tags. It would be great to write a collection of \"dummies guides\" for META tags.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Great guide for anyone who doesn’t know much about META description tags. It would be great to write a collection of “dummies guides” for META tags.
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