Apr 19, 20091
How does Google describe my site in the search results?
In an earlier post “Why doesn’t my site show up on Google?”, I mentioned how Google uses the meta description of a page for the description (or “snippet” in Google speak) that appears under links in the search results.
What may also happen is that Google uses an excerpt of text from your page that surrounds the search terms and combines them into its own snippet. [read more]
