Norm wrote:
| / "Eve L. Maler" <> was heard to say:
| | I would say to use the keywords in the keywordset, which are flat and can
| | be concatenated and separated with commas.
|
| That's not the point of the description though. The description
| is a human readable (apparently short and sweet) summary of the
| content. It's independent of the keywords meta tag.
This confused me, too, until I looked at the reference,
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
which shows as a sample,
===
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My World</TITLE>
<META name="description" content="Everything you wanted to know about stamps, from prices to history.">
<META name="keywords" content="stamps, stamp collecting, stamp history, prices, stamps for sale">
</HEAD>
Now your listing will look something like this in search engines that
support the descriptions tag:
My World
Everything you wanted to know about stamps, from prices to history.
===
I don't keep up with current, um, art wrt HTML, and this is
a new one on me. I agree with Norm that it's an abstract in
current Docbook markup - it's an abstract that isn't displayed
in the rendered HTML page, but I think that's probably something
we can overlook.
regards, Terry
