Some say that meta tags have no influence on your ranking with the search engines. Well that is nearly correct except for one \” the description meta tag. Almost all search engines (including Google) do not actually take it into account for ranking purposes \” yet \” many use it in their search results.

Google more often than not uses the description meta tag as the text to present when it shows your website in the search results. We find that it will use this about 70-80% of the time. The rest of the time it will select random text from your home page but commonly it picks up the first 156 characters of text on the page if it does not use the description tag. Make sure your description tags are always 156 characters or less.

To check the length of a piece of text just paste it into a word document and then select the text and then double click the word count box at the bottom of the screen on the status bar.

The meta tags should appear in the head section of the page between the head tags.

Google is a little rogue when it comes to using or not using the meta description tag. When it does use it you can have full control of what is exposed to possible visitors but it will often vary what it uses at will with sometimes it just picking up a piece of text from your page.

To make sure you have more control over what Google selects as the text in the search results as well as setting the description tag carefully also make sure that the first 156 characters of text on your page says what you would like to appear in Google.

If you have a flash site or just use pictures with a little text, you have a problem! We have seen Google pick up the alt text from an image and display this when it didn\’t choose to use our description tag. This will tell you to ALWAYS have some text on your page even if it is only 156 carefully selected characters (including spaces).

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