Meta Abstract & Revisit

[Antony_Towle]

Moz Community,

I have just noted a competitor using some meta information i have not seen before, Just wondering if anyone has any experience or feedback on using these tags and if they are worth implementing,

Seems very similar to the meta description, i don't really see the point unless potentially this abstract could be more topic based if your meta description is designed for Click-Through optimization.

Isn't this defined in the sitemap anyway? , and most of the time we will Tweet and Google Plus share any new updates to our site also Google seems to do a good job anyway of crawling anything new we publish or change,

Any advice or feedback would be great please,

Thanks

James

[KeriMorgret]

Revisit-after, based on searches I've done in the past, was used by one regional search engine in Canada many, many years ago and not by any other engine. You can safely not worry about needing to use it.

For Abstract, it doesn't look like it's used that much either. http://www.metatags.org/meta_name_abstract

[LesleyPaone]

The abstract tag is not supported by any major search engines, but it does not mean it is useless. The use cases I have seen for the abstract tag in the past are internal usage. One case I have seen it is organizing the pages in a custom rolled cms application. The abstract tag there will allow you to post a different short description and organize by it in the backend.

The other major use case I have seen for the abstract tag is internal search. I have seen it in professional and medical fields before. The reason being that they want to show a short snippet in regular search engines, but show a different short snippet in their own site search. This is helpful when you have terms that are not searched by the general public, but people using your site search know these terms. It lets you better target your pages to your search engine while having your real meta tags targeted to a general audience.

[Antony_Towle]

Thanks,

Great response and information, i am comfortable now knowing that i do not need to bother with these tags,

Thanks

James