Hey guys, I am reviewing the meta tags on my company's site to update/optimize them and I came across this one: <meta name='googlebot' content='Index, Follow'> I don't think that this is needed in the META tags. I have always thought that the only ones you need are the Title, description, keywords and robots tag. Every thing else just pushes the actual content further down the code and risks it not being indexed. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!!!
hmmm, never seen that kinda tag before... I would even question the need to have a description tag there. Since I removed my description tag from all but my home page, I have seen great results.
it seems to be pretty redundant unless it says nofollow, it's just telling google to do what it already does!
That's what I thought. Thanks for the info. There is also a bunch of other META tags I'm sure don't need to be there either. As I'm counting, there are at least 12 META tags that really don't mean anyting and is just wasting space. More work for me
You can remove 'index' and 'follow' as the default for '' means to index and follow. Google will only cease to index if you say noindex or cease to follow if you say nofollow. So you don't need them.
It's a little redundant. In the end, when it comes to housekeeping of the site, sometimes it's the little things like this that end up costing real extra time to make sure that they are consistent on all pages. From what I've read in the past, it's not needed.