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Old March 10th, 2008, 12:17 PM
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Need meta description help.
I am using doc type xhtml, 1.0 transitional (<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">) and I have entered a meta description. My code is valid according to the W3C validation tool.

When I search for my site using my keywords, I get pretty good placement. However, my meta description is not showing. In fact, in some cases it appears to be pulling in a sentence or phrase from my homepage copy or it pulls in the footer. But it is not consistent through out all engines.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do better to fix this?

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Dear friend...It could be due to you do not use your keywords in your description. So whenever you search for your keywords, search engine first check your title and then description(in some search engines like msn, keywords are also taken into consideration) and in the last it checks your page content, if search engine not finding your keyword from your description, it'll move to next section and where it find the keyword, it'll pick the content from there.
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meta tag is not effect ranking only title tag is effect.link building with relevant website.
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So what would happen if I totally left meta description blank? Would it cause me to lose positioning?

Then would all search engines try to find relevant content to display under my link on the SERP?
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