Adding Your Application To The Graph
Recently Jeff Attwood asked: Is meta description still relevant? In the question he quoted an anonymous “expert”: Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. To be honest I think this recommendation comes from stalwarts in the SEO community who just can’t move past the fact that their knowledge of how search worked back in 1999 isn’t how it works in 2011. It use to be that the description tag was used as the blurb below the title, because no real analytics was really done on a page. Everything you searched for was based on the keyword or the description meta tags. ...