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meta tags questions

what kind of meta tags?

         

luckydude

1:26 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I found the following meta tags somewhere. I was wondering what they are doing. Could anyone be kind enough to tell me what these are? Thanks a million in advance.


<meta content=General name=rating>
<meta content="15 days" name=revisit-after>

Luckydude

robotsdobetter

1:30 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

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<meta content=General name=rating>

It tells the robots what your content is rated (like TV PG13, Rated R, etc), but It's not important, and should not be use.

<meta content="15 days" name=revisit-after>
This tells the robots to revisit after so many days, but it doesn't help and the robot will come back after they follow a link.

encyclo

1:31 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



They're not doing much apart from wasting bandwidth. The first is useless - if you need to add a rating then you should use a PICS label, because nothing else is widely supported. The second requesting a revisit-after is also not required, as it is unsupported or ignored by bots (who use their own schedule) or by caches.

They were probably added by a generator program, or by someone who thought they'd do some good.

luckydude

5:28 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



thank you guys. It makes sense now. Thanks a lot again.

Luckydude