Meta Tags
Submitted by mattm136 on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 19:57.
How many meta tags should be used when setting up your page? For example on one of my pages I am using tags such as
(Do the robots revisit after 2 days or is this a myth?)
Do these tags help your page, hurt your page or make no difference? I have 1st page (#9) results for one of my sites that use these tags. If I remove the tags, will it hurt my rankings?
I am trying to move my site up so that it appears above the fold on page 1. I have been told that if I have position on the first page, I should leave my site alone and never touch it again. Is this true?
Thanks for all the help
Matt
Meta Tags
I'm not sure these meta tags are very helpful. I think the best think you can do is make a Robots.txt file and let the search engines know which areas of your site to crawl. I've never seen a crawler listen to the revisit-after command... I think this is a deprecated tag that has little meaning in today's world.
For more on this topic visit -
http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/revisit-after.asp
Meta Tags
Hey Jeremy,
How important is a robot.txt file if you're using an XML sitemap file. Would you just need to use a robot.txt file if you want to restrict the robots from a certain directory?
Thanks,
James
Robots files
You want to have robots file that disallows certain pages and directories of your site to be crawled, so the code looks something like this:
sitemap: http://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /cont/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /themes/
Also, If you are using Google webmaster tools, they will tell you if your robots file is NOT in order.
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