Page missing meta description some times a good thing?

[DanielMulderNL]

Just courious to why http://moz.com/learn/seo does not appear to have the meta tag:

name="description" content="">

Is this purposely done this way for some reason? Or has it become less important?

Just curious.

[Ray-pp]

Yes, Google recommends to leave the meta-descriptions empty rather than have non-unique meta-descriptions.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-meta-descriptions-17695.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2308339/Matt-Cutts-Create-Unique-Meta-Descriptions-for-Your-Most-Important-Pages

[Cyrus-Shepard]

With meta descriptions, if often dealer's choice. If you don't provide a meta description, Google's search snippet will pull the relevant text from your page that matches the user's query, which sometimes may help click-through rate.

On the other hand, a well crafted meta description can also help attract the right kind of clicks.

In this case, however, I fear it was just plain oversight. We update this page a lot, and I believe the meta description simply got lost in one of the many development cycles. So thanks for the heads up!

[junseth]

I generally leave all meta descriptions blank. Once a month I pull down our webmaster tools ranking and clickthru data, and figure out what the average clickthru is on our keywords. When a keyword is under performing on clickthrus, I will go to the ranking page, and make adjustments to the meta information.

[DanielMulderNL]

That's probally the only answer I could think of. Thanks.