Summaries can be defined for each page
A page's description meta tag gives Google and other search engines a summary of what the page is about .
Whereas a page's title may be a few words or a phrase, a page's description meta tag might be a sentence or two or a short paragraph.
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| The beginning of the description meta tag for our homepage, which gives a brief overview of the site's offerings |
Google Webmaster Tools provides a handy content analysis section that'll tell you about any description meta tags that are either too short, long, or duplicated too many times (the same information is also shown for <title> tags). Like the <title> tag, the description meta tag is placed within the <head> tag of your HTML document.
