What is meant by meta description tags?

[tinaweb]

A meta description tag is a short HTML paragraph that provides search engines with a description of a page’s content for search engine Index purposes. The meta description tag is not displayed on the website itself, and may or may not be displayed in the search engine’s listing for that site. Search engines are now giving less importance to meta description tags in lieu of actual page content.

 

[alok897]

Meta is hidden tag that not visible for user meta description used by SEO webmaster and it shows in search engine result but now search engine doesn't give much importance to meta description.