? regarding meta keywords and meta description..

[PPF]

Am I correct by saying that what I write in meta description is what will be the text under my site name in say a google search and meta keywords are keywords that help the search engines find my site?

[kentaurus]

yes. SEO is a little more complicated than that, but that's a good start.

Google will do a "first crawl" to your site, and only list the url and anything you have in the description. In a second crawl it might actually list page contents and not your description. That first and second crawl can be separated by days, weeks, or months.

[Jose Amaral Rego]

Keep in mind that you do not over use, repeat or have meaningless descriptions or keywords; googles tends to frown on that. You can google or post a question, if allowed in over at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/
http://www.dwmtech.com/Writing/hungry spiders.htm

[PPF]

what is the best way to get listed high on a google search? to pay for google adwords or is there another way?

[Jose Amaral Rego]

That was just a posting that happens to be displaying right now. Try this link.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

Content is the key to success and some cheat by using other methods, but in the end it means nothing.