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    vanhac
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    Robots Tab in Site Metadata - Helpful? or Harmful?

    I have a robots metatag in my site header information:









    In the experience and knowledge of the forum members here, is this tag good, bad, or simply useless?

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    jumaji
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    Won't help; probably won't hurt. The only time you need this tag is to specifiy "noindex,nofollow" and even then it's probably better to use the robots.txt file for this purpose.




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    Delete it. If the spider pays any attention to it at all, you are saying "don't come back for at least 7 days" -- left to it's own devices, it may be back every day. Why would you want to limit the frequency of visits?
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    bi`nh thu0`ng
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    agree with minstrel



    except I sometimes use "noindex,follow" when I have a similar page for a variety of reasons.

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    Hello Rob, I have used the revisit tag before and noticed that it didnt work for googlebot, i had a visit the following day.
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    dai uy
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    OK - I deleted both. I will see if it has any results.



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