What is a meta description tag

What is a meta description tag?

I know the meta tags are just key words? Not sure about the description tag?

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A special HTML tag that provides information about a web page.

I did a search in Google for "meta tags explained" and this is the article that came up first. It covers not just the description tag (which often goes hand in hand with the title in the display in the search pages) but all other meta tags and when and if you should use them.

The title tag is what the user will see at the top of the browser window, as well as in the search results as the linked title to your Web page. Title tags help search engines determine your web page's relevancy for certain keyword phrases. Making a good title tag is pretty simple - by the end of this how-to, you'll have a snappy new title tag that will be part of your meta tag optimization arsenal.


http://websearch.about.com/od/quicktipsa...

The description tag looks like this:

<meta name="description" content="Learn how to use meta tags and keywords on your website.">.

Here is more on how it works: http://www.richkahmer.com/meta-tags.html