I was curious if anyone has used these meta tags and if they have hurt or helped them. <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="refresh" content="30;URL=http://www.yourURL.com/" /> <meta name="name" content="Some Services., United States" /> <meta name="owner" content="Some Services., United States" /> <meta name="publisher" content="Some Services., United States" /> <meta name="phone" content="phone #" /> <meta name="publisher's email" content="yourname@gmail.com" /> <meta name="author" content="Webmasters at ..." /> <meta name="classification" content="???" /> <meta name="rating" content="General" /> <meta name="abstract" content="" /> <meta name="title" content="" /> <meta name="revisit" content="every 10 days" /> Thanks DP Members!
Well, I'll tell you that this tag will most definitely hurt you. Sending people to another page automatically is not a good thing. All the majors spend quite a bit of time at my sites each day. Requesting they wait is not good. Better to have fresh content so that they visit daily.
Just these two tags can make a difference: <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> <meta name="refresh" content="30;URL=http://www.yourURL.com/" /> Rest all of them are useless.. And Using a META REFRESH REDIRECT isnt gonna help anyways.. aint a SE friendly redirect btw. Prefer 301.
the only two that are worth doing are keywords and description, all other meta tags are pointless. there is no point in placing a meta tag for robots that reads index,follow because the search engine will do that anyway the meta tag email address is great for spamming bots and has been said before, don't redirect your page with meta tags, do it from the server
Not to mention, only using a couple of the NEEDED Meta tags can help get rid of a lot of unnecessary html bloat in all your pages, which is NEVER a bad thing!