Robots, Noarchive

It doesn't mean not index, does it?

[caspita]

Hi,

I'm interested in the use of the meta tag

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

I was reading about it and if I undertand well, it will tell to the robots "please, do not cache my pages .. but of course, I want them indexed and ranking" ... Am I right here?

I just want to double check with those of you guys that have already used this meta tag.. yes, I did a little research and I found many examples using it and ranking and everythig... but I just want to be sure that my site won't be dumped from the indexes the next morning after I get to implement this :-).

Thanks a lot,
Carlos.

[encyclo]

You understand it perfectly, Carlos: it acts to remove the cached page link in Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. I asked about the effects of using the noarchive meta tag a week or so ago in this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I continue to stand by the comments I made in that thread: from my admittedly limited experience, using noarchive has had no detrimental effect on ranking whatsoever. Other posters in the above thread report the same.

[caspita]

Thanks encyclo!,

That is exactly the post I was looking for ;-).

I'll be adding the meta tag now :-)

Carlos.