Thread: How important is the description part under meta tags

hello.
Can anyone tell me the importance of filling in the description section under meta tags- How does it affect seo ? Should I fill it in or does it really matter?
Thanks
John

Often, the description is what se's pick up to display as a little "blurb" regarding that page when a keyword brings up that page in a search result. I suggest that having that be appropriate to the keywords for each page is very important.

Again - read the SEO book in my siggy.