meta tags

[bubbleboy]

Hi, I'm new to website building.
Are these needed for the homepage?

<meta name="rating" context="general">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

[sheila]

Originally posted by bubbleboy:
Hi, I'm new to website building.
Are these needed for the homepage?

<meta name="rating" context="general">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
No, those tags are not required.
I'm not personally familiar with the "rating" metatag. But those other two are for robots only, that might visit your webpage. Basically, the last tag tells robots to index your page and to follow the links on your page and continue its searching/indexing stuff there. The second tag tells them to revisit your page in 30 days.

So far as I know, the default for all spiders and search engines is to index/follow. So omitting that tag will not change anything. And most of them have their own revisit-time cycle. I'm not sure if you will persuade many of them to follow your time-cycle.

[bubbleboy]

Thank YOU.:)