What are meta descriptions and do they still matter?

[StuartSpindlow1]

Please tell me friends..
What are meta descriptions and do they still matter?

[onestop]

Meta description is the short description of the page which tells about the whole page. It will very effective for us to get the rank.

[RH-Calvin]

Meta description is the description that is defined in the source of a website to help crawlers know about the description of your website. It is the description that is displayed along your website in search engines.

[lavyhair]

Meta description is short description for your website it is important for ranking of your website.

[Mark Thompson]

Meta descriptions are HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages. Meta descriptions are commonly used on search engine result pages (SERPs) to display preview snippets for a given page.

[completeshutter]

Meta description is very important for any website which help Google crawler to read the website. It help us to improve keyword ranking.

[StuartSpindlow3]

Meta description is the short description of the website which describe the webpage. It help the search engines to crawl the page easily.

[Newyorklimous]

Meta description plays an important role in improving keyword ranking, because Google spider crawl the meta tag fist. It should be 150 to 155 character.