SEO Tycoon

**freelancevote** · 09-16-2010, 06:11 PM

I was wondering how you get the search engines to generate their own description which shows up in the search results.

**createdevelop** · 09-16-2010, 06:24 PM

Do you mean you don't want to write a description tag?

Usually if there is no meta tag, the search engines will generate something from the first section of text they come across.

**freelancevote** · 09-16-2010, 06:27 PM

Oh ok. I thought they had a tag to instruct the search engines to do that.

**chrishirst** · 09-16-2010, 06:32 PM

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I thought they had a tag to instruct the search engines to do that.

There is. ........

..... The meta description element.

**chrishirst** · 09-16-2010, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by createdevelop

Usually if there is no meta tag, the search engines will generate something from the first section of text they come across.

Actually they will make the text snippet from text ANYWHERE on the page where the keywords or phrase are found.

**blue-dreamer** · 09-16-2010, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by createdevelop

Usually if there is no meta tag, the search engines will generate something from the first section of text they come across.

They crawl a lot more than that, the same page can be show on search results with different descriptions depending on the search query.

**Jim Gillum** · 09-16-2010, 10:45 PM

That is where some of those really crappy descriptions come from....

Makes you wanna' say huh?...:

**Kelly85** · 09-17-2010, 01:55 AM

It is always recommended to write a meta description and tags of a website which help crawlers to locate the keywords and rank you accordingly.