Robots Tab in Site Metadata - Helpful? or Harmful?

I have a robots metatag in my site header information:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>
<meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">

In the experience and knowledge of the forum members here, is this tag good, bad, or simply useless?

 

Won't help; probably won't hurt. The only time you need this tag is to specifiy "noindex,nofollow" and even then it's probably better to use the robots.txt file for this purpose.

Delete it. If the spider pays any attention to it at all, you are saying "don't come back for at least 7 days" -- left to it's own devices, it may be back every day. Why would you want to limit the frequency of visits?

 

agree with minstrel

except I sometimes use "noindex,follow" when I have a similar page for a variety of reasons.
M

 

Hello Rob, I have used the revisit tag before and noticed that it didnt work for googlebot, i had a visit the following day.

 

OK - I deleted both. I will see if it has any results.

Thanks.

 

I had a quick look on the sig page pls allow some comments.

You have quite some "junk" in there e.g additonal css

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.pim-journal.com/feed/rss2/" />

and meta tags with lang=en?? If you want to use language use the language tag
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" content="EN">
(and its capitals)

I would brng the desc and keyw tag under title and use more of the 255 chars avail.
reg
M

 

Thanks - I really do appreciate any an all feedback here.

I changed the "Content-Language" metatag as you recommended. I need to look into the additional css tags - I am not sure why they are there - came as part of the template I am using. I'll take them out and see what happens.

- quick follow up question - What do you mean by "bring under title" - sorry, but I seem to be new enough not to understand the lingo.

 

This one

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://www.pim-journal.com/feed/rss2/" />

Code (markup):

-- that looks like an RSS feed from a blog or other newsfeed on your website. I think the intent is to redirect newsreaders to the feed from your hoime page? -- however, when I try to go there I get a DNS or server error: your site is down from my end -- I can't access it at all...

This is a reference to the recommended order for meta tags:

<TITLE>
<META name="description" content="bla bla">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="bla, bla bla, bla">

Code (markup):

but in fact the order really isn't critical... the idea is to make it easier for spiders to find that information but in reality they find stuff just fine wherever you put it as long as there are no syntax errors.

 

The link mentioned is to a stylesheet - I removed it after the suggestions above.

The RSS for www.PIM-Journal.com is: http://www.pim-journal.com/feed/rss2/

That should work.

 

I was referring to this:

The line expat cited is the link to your rss feed, not a style sheet, no?

 

So what would be the optimal metadata tag be for my site? Thanks.