| Meta description tags are used on web pages, | | | | whether or not the keywords used in the |
| usually at the top of the page, and are hidden | | | | keyword description are in fact mentioned |
| from view of everyone except the search | | | | throughout the webpage. |
| engines. They used to hold quite a bit of weight in | | | | Alt tags still remain an important addition to your |
| the search engine ranking process of websites, | | | | webpage, as they describe the images which are |
| but are not used as much anymore. This is | | | | used throughout your site. It's important to include |
| because people would pack as many keywords | | | | alt tags so that search engines can recognize all |
| as they felt necessary into this hidden code on | | | | of the images that have been used throughout |
| the webpage, and soon the ranking system used | | | | and where they came from. Alt tags that also |
| by the search engines was no longer as valid as it | | | | contain keywords, can also help to improve your |
| had been in the past. | | | | keyword frequency, which in turn will improve |
| So, the question is now raised, should I include | | | | your search engine rankings. |
| Meta description tags, alt tags, title tags and Meta | | | | Although many of these Meta description tags no |
| keywords in my webpage? The simple answer is | | | | longer carry as much weight in the process of |
| yes, why not; every little bit helps when it comes | | | | determining search engine positioning, they do still |
| to improving the likelihood of positioning your | | | | carry benefits among some of the search |
| website into the top search results. If you break | | | | engines. It's important to remember that if you |
| down the importance of each of the Meta | | | | include keywords in any description tag, |
| description tags, different search engines will put | | | | particularly the alt tags, that you also include them |
| more weight into some of them then others. | | | | often throughout the body of the actual webpage. |
| Google (TM) for example ignores most of these | | | | This way, when the search engine crawler |
| Meta description and Meta keyword tags, and | | | | compares these Meta tags to the content |
| puts more focus on the keywords that are used | | | | throughout the rest of the page, they will match |
| in the actual content of a webpage. Some search | | | | up, leaving your site with higher credibility, which |
| engines, that still use keyword description tags in | | | | will hopefully result in higher page and search |
| their search engine crawls, will often verify | | | | result rankings. |