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Useful HTML Meta Tags

June 15, 2007

Note from Useful HTML Meta Tags

Author
<META NAME=”AUTHOR” CONTENT=”Tex Texin”>

cache-control
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”CACHE-CONTROL” CONTENT=”NO-CACHE”>
Content can be:
HTTP 1.1. Allowed values = PUBLIC | PRIVATE | NO-CACHE | NO-STORE.

Public – may be cached in public shared caches

Private – may only be cached in private cache

no-Cache – may not be cached

no-Store – may be cached but not archived

Copyright
<META NAME=”COPYRIGHT”
CONTENT=”&copy; 2004 Tex Texin”>

EXPIRES
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”EXPIRES” CONTENT=”Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:12:01 GMT”>
“0″, is interpreted as “now”.

PRAGMA NO-CACHE
same as cache-control-> no cache
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”PRAGMA” CONTENT=”NO-CACHE”>

Refresh
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” CONTENT=”15;URL=http://www.I18nGuy.com/index.html”>

ROBOTS
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”ALL”>

INDEX: search engine robots should include this page.

FOLLOW: robots should follow links from this page to other pages.

NOINDEX: links can be explored, although the page is not indexed.

NOFOLLOW: the page can be indexed, but no links are explored.

NONE: robots can ignore the page.

NOARCHIVE: Google uses this to prevent archiving of the page.