<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">

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  1. #1
    See it in my html here: www.danscartoons.com and wondering if it is:

    #1. Necessary?
    #2. Or unnecessary?

    Or, can someone recommend a better tag to stick there? OR: Can this be modified?
    Danke!
     
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  2. graphseo

    graphseo Banned

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    #2
    It is not Necessary. But i am using this every time.
    I suggest you can remove this Tag : <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="14 days">
     
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  3. dinrock

    dinrock Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I was wondering about that "revisit" tag . . . I mean, does the "all knowing" "all seeing" Goog-bot REALLY need to be told to do this? And, by how many days? Like they will make a note of the 14 days and say right, I'll come back and spider him in two weeks . . . yeap, right. OK, I'll remove that!
     
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    delhidon Banned

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    No need of these 2 meta tags. Use only meta description and meta keyword. Meta keyword is also useless. So you can ignore meta keyword too.
     
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    #5
    You can still have that tag by making just small change.

    <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="2 days">
     
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    Its a complete waste, you are just cluttering up the <head> with pointless code. Anyone suggesting this knows very litte about SEO and the crawling practices of Google.
     
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    Perfect Answer! +REP

    Think about it, your using the robots meta tag to tell Google to crawl, index & follow all external links. If your not blocking this page via robots.txt than Google will do this anyways, without needing to read this meta element.
     
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    you dont need that. all the robots will index and follow by default. if you do not want the robots to index or follow a specific page or links of your site, then you can use noindex,nofollow. but index,follow is a waste of time
     
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    #2 And remove the revisit after 14 days meta tag at a minimum. I'd hate to wait 14 days for a new page to be indexed. :(

    I see you have no robots.txt file or sitemap.xml file. You may want to create a sitemap and reference it in your robots.txt file. That may be helpful for getting new pages indexed quickly.
     
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    I haven't paid much attention to Yahoo and MSN. Do they pay any attention to the OP's "index,follow" META tag?
     
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    There are better/other ways to control spiders. I agree that cluttering the meta tag could be a waste and unnecessary.

    Submitting a new sitemap would be better after adding content. Ssandecki is the expert on sitemaps. :)
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element#cite_note-9 is the citation for the Yahoo! mentioning in that specific URL I displayed, I should of been more descriptive where you could verify that. The cite is from the Yahoo! blog itself.

    http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/05/22/603917.aspx

    Talks about adding support for NOOPD, so I'd assume they use the entire standard as well.
     
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    Ya, but you never know with goofy Microsoft :D
     
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    I would like to know more about adding a robots.txt file. Is it something that needs to be added to the HTML? where in the code on this page, would I add it and exactly what if anything...needs to be inserted there?
     
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    totally agreed!!
     
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    no need ....
     
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    ????Loy Maben????rani84jor???? - - - - what is your response in regards to? VAGUE. Do not unstand what you are referring to. I asked more in-depth abouth the robots.txt and sitemap.txt files so am not sure what you're trying to say. Well, let me put it this way, I am not going to worry about anything except to say my pages will be perfect after I delete the <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow"> in my HTML. Thanks.
     
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