Short text pages

Same description than body?

[Macguru]

I have a site with some important sections just like some slide show. Body text is usually a short sentence. I am tempted to copy/paste body in description. (Am I getting lazy?)

Am I heading for trouble?

[NFFC]

Just leave the tag out Mac.

[Macguru]

Herr, then what will happend? Most SE still use it. Can you tell me more about it?

[NFFC]

>then what will happend

They will use the text that is on the page for the desription. I'm assuming they are low value pages, additional to your main optimization stratagy.

[Ove]

I know what you mean but the ses that dont use the meta would it work for i have done that myself but i dont know the effect of it (lazy i guess)

/Ove

[Macguru]

Thank you guys! I keep on learning every day. I will leave the whole tag out. So when we see descriptions like "..." on some SE it is that the whole page is text free?

NFFC you are right assuming they are not top priority. But they talk about a wide veriety of secondary subjects, this is why I just can't leave them alone.

[Marcia]

I once used the same short sentence in the description and beginning of the first paragraph. It showed up just that way in the MSN description - 2 of the same sentence as their description. Just didn't look right. Looked like they picked up a certain number of characters total, first the description and the balance from the first text.