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Old 01-02-2005, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ngamer
first thing I noticed is that you don't have specific googlebot instructions for your site.


It would look like this with the robot instructions

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">

This is the most up to date meta tag for googles spiders. Should help some in addition of cleaning up your code.
Those tags are entirely unnecessary. All you are doing is saying, "Spiders -- do what you normally do." The only time you should include a "robots" meta tag is if you do NOT want the normal behavior, as in "noindex, follow", "index, nofollow", or "noindex, nofollow". Otherwise, omit them.
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