Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 05/05/07 08:50

Scripsit JB:

> Remember to not only give the keywords, but also tell the search
> engines to visit you again,

That's pointless too.

> <meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days">

They'll laugh at you. If indexing robots could be affected that easily, they
would become rather useless, when all competings authors would ask them to
visit every minute.

The only effect it _might_ reasonably have is that if an indexing robot, by
its own criteria, decided that the page is so important and has changing
content that it needs to be visited every week, it _might_ read the meta tag
and think "Oh well, a fortnight's interval shall it be then".

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

That's the default anyway, so you gain nothing.

> I did this on my page and it helps

No, you have no actual evidence of any effect. It's just wishful thinking,
which would be irrelevant, but now you are telling others to do same useless
things.

> Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Always a useful bogosity indicator, as is writing anonymously.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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