No cache meta tags - does it help Google get back and reindex faster?

[CFSSEO]

I saw these meta tags on a site and am trying to figure out their benefit. These meta tags are on the home page, product pages, every page of the site.

Will it cause search engine bots to come back and index pages faster? Will it cause slower page loading in browsers if nothing is cached?

http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>

http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate"/>

http-equiv="expires" content="0"/>

[Ray-pp]

Hi CFSSEO,

I don't have any hard evidence, but I would think that it doesn't help your site get crawled more frequently. Most of the time Google decides how frequent they will crawl your site, especially if it is a large and high traffic website (they remove the crawl settings and assign you a 'special crawl rate').

Yes, this would cause slower page load times - if the no-cache rule is actually being followed which doesn't happen all the time.

It will remove the 'cached' link in the SERPs

In a scenario where the page has dynamic content that updates frequently, then it may be a good idea to use that tag. However, I don't think it will provide much of an SEO benefit.