Is it ok?

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    Is it ok?

    is this correct???

    <title>My title</title>
    <meta name="description" content=" ">
    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <meta name="Revisit-After" content="15 Days">
    <meta name="Robots" content="all">
    <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
     
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  2. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Delete these:

    <meta name="Revisit-After" content="15 Days">
<meta name="Robots" content="all">
    Code (markup):
     
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    Is it that 15 days is too high, or that restricting the return time is a bad idea in general...? I have this in my site:

    <meta name="rating" content="General" />
    <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
    <meta name="revisit-after" content="7 Days" />
    <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />

    Are you saying 'revisit-after' is not a good thing to use? How about the 'no-cache' part?

    min.
     
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    Wow, interesting article! I guess I know what I'm doing next on my site.

    How about the no-cache tag? Have any useful info on that, even if it points to its use"less"ness too?

    min
     
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    Apart from the fact that it's useless, the "revisit-after" is an often misunderstood tag. It doesn't mean, "Come back after X days:, it means "Don't come back for AT LEAST X days". In other words, for any bots that pay any attention to it at all, you are potentially reducing the number of visits to your site - you are certainly not increasing the frequency.

    The "no-cache" tag is not for spiders but for browsers. Not sure if it even works but the intent is to tell browsers to refresh the page from the site, not from the temporary internet cache on the visitor's computer.

    The "expires" part is, I think, also ignored. Setting the value to -1 as you have it means "this page will always be relevant" - preumably that's the default for most pages anyway. Setting it to anything else is again a limiter if anyone pays any attention to it.
     
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