As I have noted on other posts (see the Googlebot Meta Tags post), the description element is another part of HTML that has uses with search engines. Well designed websites use the description element not only for keywords and a simple description of the page, but also it can control how the page shows up in search engines (once again, a better explanation of this can be found in the Googlebot Meta Tags post )
For WordPress users, there are various plugins that can be used. Another way to control the description of a post is to alter the header.php of the theme to use the_excerpt for the description.
The following is the code that would produce this:
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php the_excerpt() ?>” />
Thank you for the quick but efficient tutorial – great stuff
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Thanks for all the tips…learning about SEO can be a bear, and I need all the help I can get! Grace
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That is a really good tip. The more content that you can add for search engines to classify your site the better.