Comments on: Google Snippets and the Meta Description Tag http://www.metamend.com/blog/2007/10/02/google-snippets-and-the-meta-description-tag/ Search engine and Website Marketing tips, information, news and opinion from Metamend's team of SEM and SEO experts. The Metamend Blog covers SEO, search engines, search trends, search engine optimization and marketing. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:58:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Alex Hlinski http://www.metamend.com/blog/2007/10/02/google-snippets-and-the-meta-description-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-28401 Alex Hlinski Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:13:57 +0000 http://www.metamend.com/blog/2007/10/02/google-snippets-and-the-meta-description-tag/#comment-28401 Touché... Touché…

]]> By: Colin Cochrane http://www.metamend.com/blog/2007/10/02/google-snippets-and-the-meta-description-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-28247 Colin Cochrane Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:07:20 +0000 http://www.metamend.com/blog/2007/10/02/google-snippets-and-the-meta-description-tag/#comment-28247 While one cannot deny the truth of your claims Mr. Hlinski, one cannot help but experience some cognitive dissonance when performing a Google search for "alex hlinski" and being presented with this: "Posted by Alex Hlinski @ 4:08 pm. It’s not often that the big three give anything away regarding ‘on page’ optimization, but yesterday in the Google ..." It would appear, good sir, that you neglected to, as you said, "take snippet control out of the search engines’ hands for this important traffic generating element". I bid good day to you sir. While one cannot deny the truth of your claims Mr. Hlinski, one cannot help but experience some cognitive dissonance when performing a Google search for “alex hlinski” and being presented with this:

“Posted by Alex Hlinski @ 4:08 pm. It’s not often that the big three give anything away regarding ‘on page’ optimization, but yesterday in the Google …”

It would appear, good sir, that you neglected to, as you said, “take snippet control out of the search engines’ hands for this important traffic generating element”.

I bid good day to you sir.

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