META description tags

Why aren't they working?

[Oaf357]

I have META description tags on all my pages. For some reason SearchEngineWorld.com's Sim Spider isn't seeing them and Google isn't either. What's the deal with that?

My site is <snip>
A sample tag is as follows:
<meta name="description" content="This is the web site for Chris, Carri and Aubree Short. Site contains technology info, jokes, links, pictures, career info, a calendar of family events and other useful features." />

[edited by: Woz at 3:22 am (utc) on Mar. 10, 2003]
[edit reason] TOS#13 no self URLs please [/edit]

[korkus2000]

Google does not use meta description tags. Most major engines don't either. Same goes for the keywords tag.

[Woz]

I agree that generally Google does not use the Description, however, it does sometimes take the Meta Description into account. I have a few positions for a keyword combination where one keyword is in the Title and the other in the Description. Good for plurals and mispellings.

Not sue about the Spider Sim though.

Onya
Woz

[coconutz]

....family events and other useful features." />

Could this -->/ be causing any problems?

[Oaf357]

You're right / <-- that is the cause of the problem. Too bad I can't remove it if I want my pages to be XHTML compliant.

So explain to me how Google gets the wonderful descriptions of sites if it doesn't use META tags.