Are missing Meta Tags a big deal on a blog?

[webestate]

I show 272 missing Meta Description Tags after the crawl completed on my website.  Pretty much all of those are from my website hosted wordpress blog.  Should I be concerned about this?

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Nathan - there are two ways to look at this - from an SEO point of view meta description has no real value in regards to influencing your search rankings directly. However from a customers/visitor view point it can influence whether the person actually clicks on your page in the SERPs, as it will influence the description that search engines show for your page, so if you can I would look at working on this to make sure you are getting the optimum click-throughs from your SERPs postions.

[DougRoberts]

Agree with Matt. There's no point ranking if nobody ever clicks on your link.

If you can make your Title/Description combinations compelling / relevant then it's possible for your entry to punch above it's weight and get more clicks then you'd expect from it's position. Or conversely your entry might not get the clicks you expect if your titles/description aren't connecting with your audience.

If you're got hundreds of missing meta-descriptions then I'd start by looking at your important pages.