What is the use of providing Meta Keywords and Meta Description in directories ?

[learn2earn]

While submitting your site details in directories, some directories do ask for meta keywords and meta description. What it is ? And how its helpful ?

[BeatleManU]

Well, depending on the subject matter of your site, meta keywords are main terms that typify what your site is about. If your site is about hamburgers, then you would have words like beef, burger, bun, cheese, etc...

[Alan]

These directories often have a search facility that use keywords and description, unfortunately it is not implemented in many of these directories, but the field still appear on the submission form.