index,follow OR all

[ITecs]

I understand what robots.txt do, an dI also understand how <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow"> works,

however...

I've seen many web pages that use the following line:
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="ALL"

Does the two line have advatages and disadvantages over each other?

Thanks,
Brian
www.ITecsonline.com

[Advisor]

From what I understand, the engines all ignore that tag, so it doesn't matter what you put in there. In other words, it won't make them follow your links or not follow them!

Oh, and welcome to the forums!

Jill

[ihelpyou]

yea, they both mean the same with no difference. I agree but I still put it in just out of habit, I think. I guess I am afraid not to at this point. :)

[Hope]

If you have robots.txt, you have no need to worry about the robots meta tags. If you are on a free server or do not use are robots.txt, then you might need to worry about the meta tag. Most of the search engines don't read them anymore, but there are a few that do.

[Alan Perkins]

I think a lot of robots obey these tags.

"ALL" is equivalent to "INDEX, FOLLOW"
"NONE" is equivalent to "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"

More info at www.robotstxt.org