Do SEs pay attention to the "revisit-after" meta?

[MonkeeSage]

For example,

<meta name="Revisit-After" content="3 Days"/>

Does this actually work?

Jordan

[storevalley]

Far as I can tell, all SE bots turn up when they feel like it. You might be able to persuade them to visit you less frequently than they do by default, though ...

[Jon_King]

Good question MonkeeSage,

I wonder if there is any science on the entire topic of controlling SE's with any of the meta tags... I mean controlled experiments. Maybe someone here at WW has some insight or data....

[tedster]

A few years back I did a thought experiment. I thought about how I would create a top shelf, crawler-based search engine that can handle several billion pages. Would I obey a revisit-after meta tag? The immediate answer in my mind is, NO WAY. And I'm pretty sure that's the nearly universal practice in the commercial realm.

The meta tag might have some use for an intranet or closed community search of some kind. But that's about all I can think of.

[MonkeeSage]

Thanks for the answers. :)

I recently saw it during some source snooping and was wondering if it was some little known SEO secret. I figured prolly not, but might as well ask.

Jordan

[mack]

I think it all comes down to the update cycle of the se involved.

Looking back over the Google dance, the bot would be out crawling throught the 1st half of the month, then the new data would be injected towards the end of the month. If the bot was to obey this tag then the update cycle would be distrupted.
Just a pity we dont have this cycle anymore. No more reguarity.

I think se's are now paying a lot more attention to the "if_modified_since" header. This tells the bot if the content has changed or not. If the content has remined un-changed then there is no need to re visit.

Mack.

[2_much]

No.