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Gregg Stephenson

12:57 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

Help! I'm very new to this and have the task of cleaning up after a consultant that made a mess of our web site.

As part of our META TAGS - he put the above. My question is does this really work or is it more of a dream?

Please help!

agerhart

1:15 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

Gregg,

A belated welcome to the fourms.

This does work, and the search engines do adhere to the tag if it is structured right.

This is an example stright off one of our clients sites:

FreeBee

1:28 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I'd be interested to see which SE's do obey this tag. It certainly doesn't have any impact on Google which is our main focus. Perhaps others? (I'd say it's irrelevant.)

(edited by: FreeBee at 2:29 pm (gmt) on Aug. 23, 2001

agerhart

1:32 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

whether they adhere to it or whether it has any impact are two differnt things....anyone have any experiences with this?

Gregg Stephenson

1:36 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

Does the spider ignore the content if it has not changed from the previous time it spidered?

Macguru

1:51 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I have some sites with this tag and some without. I cannot see any difference in crawling cycles of top 10 SE.
I stick with Keywords and description and sometimes NoIndex,follow for wallway pages.

May be soon we will all have to add :
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
<added>And bill Microsoft for the work.</added>

I consider the rest as pushing down the goodies with useless lines.

(edited by: Macguru at 2:48 pm (gmt) on Aug. 23, 2001

Mike_Mackin

2:08 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

>pushing down the goodies with useless lines

*And guess where I found this STUFF*
<META http-equiv=PICS-Label content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l comment "RSACi North America Server" by "inet@companyname.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'> <style></style>

NFFC

2:17 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I find this works very well;

META NAME=Inktomi CONTENT="Visit as often as you like, maybe everyday, just grab the index page. Use the data free of charge with no intention of sending any traffic. If you accidentally add the site to the dB please ensure it drops out after a few days."

As for the revisit-after tag I see no effect.

Key_Master

2:20 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

NFFC, I love it! ;)

Macguru

2:34 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

>>*And guess where I found this STUFF*

Hey Mike that is great!

Do you think robots will dig it?

Gregg Stephenson

2:38 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

OK - I get the feeling that this is deff. a useless piece of code that is only taking up space.

Thanks all for the feedback. Now - how about this for a tag

META NAME=Inktomi CONTENT="send 1 million hits to me per day and all your money".>

agerhart

2:43 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

META NAME=Inktomi CONTENT="send 1 million hits to me per day and all your money".>

Awesome! LOL :)

Macguru

2:44 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I suggest you can replace Inktomi by Microsoft. :)

Mike_Mackin

2:54 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

>>*And guess where I found this STUFF*

Answer = msn.com

Macguru

3:00 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

>>Answer = msn.com

I love it!

But I think you hang around in strange places...

Key_Master

3:13 pm on Aug 23, 2001 (gmt 0)

I just found this on my default.ida page:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 seconds">

Maybe it does work...