Meta Tagg'in

[Vixen]

Hi

Great little forum this, not too busy with cocky webby people.

Anyhow, I know meta's work, but can one make them not work anymore? I mean do they expire on the crawlers regular route? I did a search by keyword of my old tagging system and keep getting broken links that I deleted from my domain eons ago, however my new meta info searches net zip! Does google dump old suff?

Also, does it matter were the "Robots = ALL" tag goes? System variable / user variable, I have toyed with both and both seem to work regardless, but is there a proper way? :roll:

[delcyphr]

I think that the old metas should disappear as search engine robots update their listings. I don't know if this is always the case, though.

You might want to do a 404 page for your site. This would give you the chance to direct visitors to your live pages. A helpful (and humorous) guide to making 404 pages can be found here:

http://www.plinko.net/404/default.asp

[Sub Zero]

thats only if the server supports it.

[matbennett]

If the page no longer exists on your server at all you can request that google remove it from their index (and cache) at the following url:
http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller

If the page exists, but you don't want it indexed it is generally better to use a Robots.txt file than using the meta robots tag. This is because the tag will cause many search engines to include the page in their index, but not the content. Search google for robots.txt and you will get a wealth of info on this (pretty simple though)