How does a spider see all my pages?

Do I need the "index, follow" tag on all pages?

[Monkscuba]

Is it better to have the following on all pages of my site:

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">

or just the index page?

If it's on all pages, will this be easier for robots to spider the site? We have a very good internal link system already, but i wonder if this would be a good move...

[pendanticist]

I use <META NAME="Robot" CONTENT="ALL"> on every page, including index.html.

It would seem if you want them to visit, 'ya gotten tell 'em.

Pendanticist.

[SmallTime]

I use a robots.txt file to dissallow any folders I don't want them to spider. I do not use a meta robots tag on the page.

[Mohamed_E]

Never use it, spiders have had no difficulty indexing my whole site. The main purpose of that tag is to prevent spiders from exploring parts of your site, following links is their default behavior.

[JamesR]

mohamed has it right. I don't think they pay attention to follow tags, just no index ones (and even then it is suspect). Spiders usually follow links to other pages and will index your site if you have given them a clear path from page to page.

[pendanticist]

I don't think any one solution is right. Obviously both work.

Pendanticist.