Robot html

need meta name information

[fmmk]

Can anyone give me the correct html code lines to include robots, revisit-after verbage, etc.?
Do I need to state the resource type first?
Thank you

[tedster]

First thing, an important comment.

You should know that today's spidering search engines will not pay any attention to this meta tag. They crawl on their own schedule and that's that. The creation of this tag was a questionable idea at best, probably based on a lack of vision or a poor estimate of how big the web would become.

That said, here's the syntax:

<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 Days">

[fmmk]

thank you

[drbrain]

You may have luck with setting Last-Modified and Expires headers for your pages. Setting them appropriately may also reduce load on your site from ordinary users.

[fmmk]

DrBrain-I do not know what this means

[tedster]

Those are server HTTP headers - not really HTML and BRowsers topics, but certainly worht mentioning. In fact, if your server is using HTTP 1.1, send the If-Modified-Since header.

Modern crawlers really appreciate it, and they may be able to spend the allotted time for crawling your domain to find more pages, instead of gathering the same ones they already have.

Straight from GoogleGuy:
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