Useless Meta Tags in SEO

Here are some useless meta tags in SEO:


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

This meta tells all the robots that visits the site to index the page and follow all the links in the page.

To tell the bots what to do:

1. index, follow - index the page, follow links


2. noindex, nofollow - don't include the page in your index, don't follow links


3. index, nofollow - index the page, don't follow links


4. noindex, follow - don't include the page in your index, follow links

<meta name="page-topic" content="">


<meta name="abstract" content="">


<meta name="author" content="">


<meta name="revisit-after" content="1">

This meta tells the bot to visit every after the # of days being mentioned. Google ignores this meta. When your website does not do tricks and has good contents, Google will visit your website everyday!


<meta name="language" content="en-us">

This meta tells the bots that the pages are using the English U.S. as the language used in the contents.


<meta name="rating" content="General">

This meta tells the bots that the contents of the page are in general patronage.


<meta name="resource-type" content="document">

This meta tells the bots that the file is a document.


<meta name="distribution" content="Global">

This meta tells the bots to distribute the pages globally.


<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

This tells the browser not to cache the pages being viewed by the user. Every visit of the user, he gets fresh cache information. IE ignores this meta.