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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Sure you can. But here is the statement of W3C why it is useful:
Therefore as robots are user-agents, I thought that it could make a difference. What do you think?
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The problem I see is that if something can be changed at will, at any time, by the site owner, why would that "something" make a site more "trustworthy" to a SE?
I'm of the belief that external factors are what influence "trust" when it comes to the SE's and internal factors are what influence "trust" when it comes to your visitors.
Let's take a SSL certificate for example. Is an ecommerce site that does not have one and only takes telephone orders more "trustworthy" because they don't collect and/or store sensitive data or less "trustworthy" because they don't have one?
Is a site that does not have a privacy policy because they don't collect information less or more "trustworthy" than a site that does?
Dave