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AJW06
01-09-2007, 07:27 PM
i am not happy with the message that google display when you search for my website and i also want it to search forthe keywords that i displayed in my meta tags. sorry if this doesn't make sense all happy i am truely grateful for
felgall
01-09-2007, 08:35 PM
Work out what part of the page content theat Google is displaying as the description and change that part to read what you want. Google will then change the description eventually.
VIPStephan
01-10-2007, 12:13 AM
Google is probably displaying the title and the description you specified in your page header:

<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
<meta name="description" content="Website description. Google shows that.">
....
...
</head>


So you just have to change that description and giveit some time (can take up to a month) for Google's robots to index your site again with the changes applied.
Meta keywords have become pretty useless nowadays because most search engines ignore them totally as there has been some bad practice with them in the past.

What Google will recognize is well formed code (valid, semantic...), good alternative image descriptions (alt tags), well formed URLs (http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/smart-urls-and-smarter-404s) and continuously fresh content.
Pennimus
01-10-2007, 02:14 PM
There are 3 places Google will take a description from: your meta description, if it's relevant to the page and the query; the page itself; or a DMOZ listing. Generally it's best to avoid the second option by making your meta description as good as possible.

Google will recognize is well formed code (valid, semantic...)

This is a little off topic, but I'd just like to point out that to my knowledge there is absolutely no proof that this is true. If you do have some proof, I'd love to see it :thumbsup:
VIPStephan
01-10-2007, 06:37 PM
Well, I have no proof either but... if it makes people write valid and semantic code... why not? :p