Do I Need a Meta Robots Tag On Every Page?

[div]

Do I need this on every page??

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

or can I omit it?

is that the default position for goolebot?

DiV

[xcandyman]

Nearly all search engines pay no attention to that specific tag but I would myself put it only on the homepage just in case.

Steve

[muesli]

<div class=ignore> 
 <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">  
</div> 

;)

[jdMorgan]

Careful!

Somewhere around here I saw a thread that stated that Inktomi's default - if the <meta robots> tag is absent - is "index,nofollow"

Maybe it wasn't Ink, but whatever it was, I added the "index,follow" tag to all my important pages, not just "index.html"

Jim

[Marcia]

Agreeing with Jim, I also use it routinely with index,follow unless something else is needed.

[keyplyr]

All evidence says the tag is archaic and non supported

[fluxcapacitor]

I keep it on all my pages. After all, it's only one line. You lose little if it's ignored, but gain if it's needed.

[ciml]

Google does support the META robots tag.

"index,follow" is the default, so not having one is no problem unless you want to exclude some pages.