meta tags questions

what kind of meta tags?

[luckydude]

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]

<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]

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]

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

Luckydude