How important, if at all, are the following meta tags, and should they
be used:

<meta name="refresh time" content="5 ">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

Thanks,

Dr. S.

Hi Dr. S.

Not used by Google. Other SE's I doubt it.

This is the default for Google so this is unnecessesary
code bloat AFAIC. Likely the same for other  SE's.

Your might want to also check this post by Google:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-pop...

Hope that helps,
Abracadabra
On May 10, 9:38 am, Dr. S. wrote:

Urban myth. At least, that syntax is.  And even if you get it right,
why refresh a page every five seconds?  Some of us have bandwidth
limitations.

Default.

If you want to use the meta tag to do a redirect, I would advise you
not to use. Do a Google for "301 redirect", this can be done in your
server-side scripting or from .htaccess

On May 10, 10:01 pm, david64 wrote:

I don't think that was the intention.  The OP probably wanted the
simple refresh syntax, which is:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />

Where 5 is the delay in seconds.  It's most annoying - the Drudge
Report uses it.  The redirect form is:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=...." />

Google has intimated on several occasions that a zero-delay refresh is
treated _almost_ like a 301.  I suspect the effect can be improved by
adding a robots noindex meta tag.