Could someone explane these meta tags please?

Hello

Could some one explane to me what are the following meta tags, what
they do and what are the benefits, when should i use them? I have the
problem that i don´t understand what these mean... All imput is very
welcome!!!

1. <meta name="Googlebot" content="index, follow, all">

2. <meta name="DC.Description" content="">

3. <meta name="abstract" content="">

4. <meta name="title" content="">

5. <meta name="language" content="English", "en">

6. <meta name="rating" content="general">

7. <meta name="author" content="">

8. <meta name="publisher" content="">

9. <meta name="copyright" content="">

10. <meta name="expires" content="2035-7-10">

11. <meta name="revisit-after" content="0 days">

12. <meta name="page-topic" content="">

13. <meta name="audience" content="all">

14. <meta name="robots" content="archive">

15. <meta name="robots" content="index">

16. <meta name="robots" content="follow">

17. <meta name="robots" content="all">

18. <meta name="distribution" content="Global">

19. <meta name="rating" content="General">

20. <meta name="Category" content="">

21. <meta name="generator" content="">

22. <meta name="url" content="">

23. <meta name="pragma" content="no-cache">

24. <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

25. <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">

Thank for your time!

Uuno Turhapuro

 

Ignore them. You only need 2 - the description and keywords tags.

 

a handy little tool that some users here know of is called 'google'. A search on this google tool (http://www.google.ca/search?q=meta+tags) provides these 2 links as the first results:

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167931
http://www.philb.com/metatag.htm

please don't rely on others for research that you can easily do yourself

 

I disagree. There are some in your list worth knowing. Take the robots tags for instance. If you have pages within your site(s) you do not want indexed or followed, these could be useful {*note: does not stop some crawlers}.

As for rating tags, check out ICRA and some of the others. I have found this useful when wanting to reach users in government and education positions that may not be allowed to visit certain sites while at work. Hope this helps!

 

awesom.. thanks for great replies...

Wow! That google search tool is awesom! I wish i would have found it earlier, thanks man =)

uuno

 

you don't need to know about all those for doing your own Meta tags. the only ones to really focus on and make sure you get right is the keywords and description meta tags.

hope i helped.