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<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow,all">
<meta name="REVISIT-aFTER" content="2 days">
what does
<meta name="REVISIT-aFTER" content="2 days">
mean?
This meta information tells bots to reindex the site every two days, or whatever time is given.
In practise no robot cares for that meta info.
Robots follow their own schedule. I would recommend to just leave that out.
<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow,all">
Hello farrukh, welcome!
The above META Robots Tag is improperly formatted also...
If the keyword all is found in the robots terms list it overrides all other values. That is, a robots terms that is "nofollow, all, noindex, nofollow", would effectively be "all".
index,follow is the same as "all". There is no need to use this tag in the first place as that is the default behavior for most spiders that are of importance. Typically this tag is used to exclude content from indexes and may be formatted one of three different ways...
A robots term of noindex allows the links on that page to be followed, even though the page is not to be indexed.
<meta name="robots" content="[b]noindex[/b]">A robots term of nofollow allows the page to be indexed, but no links from the page are followed.
<meta name="robots" content="[b]nofollow[/b]">A robots term of none is the same as noindex, nofollow. Neither the page or the links on that page will be followed or indexed.
<meta name="robots" content="[b]none[/b]">The other tag, the revisit tag is a myth when it comes to seo. Anytime I see this tag I cringe as someone has not been doing their homework or is trying every seo trick in the book. Please, don't fall into the same trap as many others have.
I was just asking for the Revisit tag. As i was just curious about it.
Also, this is how i have added the robot tag to my site
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
As mentioned previously, this tag is not required as it is the default behavior of the spider. If you are adamant about using it, the proper format would be...
<meta name="robots" content="all">
