Meta tags

iknowalttl · 03-10-2005

I was wondering about a couple meta tags...

name="revisit-after" content="7days"

name="robots" content="index, follow"

Do these tags tell bots and spiders to follow the links on the page they are crawling and to come back again in 7 days?

I was also wondering if a spider or bot followed the links, does it include links outside of the site it is crawling... if so how do you control it?

DanB · 03-11-2005

You are correct in your assumptions.

There's also a new anchor attribute rel="nofollow" that the major search engines are using. Links with this attribute set won't be followed by the spider.

Code:

<A href="outlink.html" rel=nofollow">link</A>

iknowalttl · 03-11-2005

Quote:

Originally posted by DanB@Mar 11 2005, 10:24 AM
You are correct in your assumptions.

There's also a new anchor attribute rel="nofollow" that the major search engines are using. Links with this attribute set won't be followed by the spider.

Code:

<A href="outlink.html" rel=nofollow">link</A>

thanks for the info..

03-10-2005	#1
iknowalttl Members Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 215	I was wondering about a couple meta tags... name="revisit-after" content="7days" name="robots" content="index, follow" Do these tags tell bots and spiders to follow the links on the page they are crawling and to come back again in 7 days? I was also wondering if a spider or bot followed the links, does it include links outside of the site it is crawling... if so how do you control it? __________________ Got Lifeforce?

03-11-2005	#2
DanB Members Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA USA Posts: 8	You are correct in your assumptions. There's also a new anchor attribute rel="nofollow" that the major search engines are using. Links with this attribute set won't be followed by the spider. Code: <A href="outlink.html" rel=nofollow">link</A>