Meta Revisit?

[Paul78]

Hi there,

We have just migrated to a new website with a new design etc and I have noticed that we now have this code on our website:

From my understanding this is telling search engines to come back to your website in 10 days time to crawl the website?

I'm sure I have read on serveral occasions that you should not does this and let search engines crawl your site when it see's fit to do so?

Hope someone can help me out on this

Kind Regards,

[Highland]

Based on Google's own blog they ignore the revisit-after attribute. I'd still remove it since there's no purpose.

[rasmusbang]

One thing i am certain you should NOT do is to put revisit-after "1 DAYS" on all pages. That could give you a punishment.

We have a sitemap where some of our pages are set to be updated monthly. However, Google visits the pages often than that.

If your site has a good structure, with a good amount of pages I think you will do fine without the tag. Especially if you have a sitemap with good and honest values for update frequency for the entries. I think it is good to have good values IF you choose to have the tag. I really can not see Google punishing you unless you have a revisit which is a lot more frequent than your actual updates on the page.

I would recommend you skipping the tag and concentrate on haveing a good sitemap, with solid values for "priority" and "changefreq".

Best regards,

Rasmus

[Jinx14678]

I tried to find the other question cause i know this one has been asked before, but I think the "Good Answer" response was something like...

Google Never used these tags, some others did, but Googlebot has never, and having them these days just adds more code ---  that means less code that really needs to be seen by the engines will be seen since they only crawl a certain amount of data on your site, per crawl.

And I know that a few lines of code is really negligible when it comes to site load speed and maybe even crawl amount, but removing superfluous code on your site is always a best practice in my opinion.

And this code would definitely qualify as superfluous code in my opinion

Shane

UPDATE**

Found it and the answer was staff endorsed

http://www.seomoz.org/q/revisit-after-metatag-why-use-it