Meta tags and how to use them: Part 2

This tutorial continues on from Meta tag Tutorial: Part 1 and shows some of the less well known but often more interesting tags. <meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet"> You know all those extra features like caching & excerpts Google has in its search? Now you can actually control them! Notes: Finally, remember Google states that this tag is for restricting access to content, thus a tag like the following is both foolish and unprofessional: <meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="index,follow"> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"> Possible values here are: <meta name="copyright" content="© 2005 Benjamin Wigoder"> A very self-explanatory tag, who the copyright of the page belongs to (webmaster? ceo? company?) <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Fri, 13 May 2006 22:30:07 GMT"> When the page content expires and search engines should either delete the page or revisit it. Day of week must be first 3 english letters, time must be in 24 hour format with seconds and it must be GMT. <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> Similar to the cache control but is more compatible with older http formats. It indicates no cache information should be used and all data requests should be forwarded to the origin server. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.benwiggy.com"> A very useful tag - so much more compatible and reliable than Javascript redirects. The first number is in seconds and then you type the URL (can be relative: e.g. page2.html instead of http://www...) <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> The Googlebot tag was based on this one, possible values are: Robots values can be stacked using commas, e.g: <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <meta name="publisher" content="Benjamin Wigoder"> Not a very well known tag, often matches the value of the author and copyright holder, but not always. <meta http-equiv="Reply-to" CONTENT="fakeemailad@ssspamthis.com"> I really do not advise this tag unless you like spam... <meta name="creation_date" CONTENT="03/06/2005"> The date on which the page was created. <meta http-equiv="Window-target" content="_top"> In the newest browsers this means no more Javascript to stop other sites framing your pages - just insert this and your site cannot be framed! Do NOT use on frame pages! Conclusion Well, there you have it, almost every meta tag in existance in one place! I excluded some because they were too specific (like some Microsoft ones...) If you missed it, the first Meta tag tutorial part is available on my site and features the more important and more common meta tags. Remember, metas are not dead - just under-estimated!