I just love Web Marketing Today for advice on all things SEO. This is an area where I only dabble… I know the basics and am trying to learn more about it so I can help our clients get better search engine rankings. Here’s a really good article about how to make the best description meta tags:

How to Get Compelling Descriptions into Your Search Results

If you’re using WordPress, you’ll want to get the All in One SEO plugin, which allows you to set meta tags for every page and post.