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What does this code mean and what does it do?
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index all, follow all">
Can anyone give me a concise description?
In other words, not just > It tells "robots" to run through your site, or Why do you want to know, or it depends on "---", or it only works on "---", etc.
Thanks in advance for helpful, clear, pertinent, concise responses
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You are correct in it tells the "robots" to run through your site .... however it is a bit more complicated than that.
A "robot" is .....
"Any browser program that follows hypertext links and accesses Web pages but is not directly under human control. Example: search engine spiders, the harvesting software programs that extract e-mail addresses or other data from Web pages."
www.virtechseo.com/seoglossary.htm
so the code tells the "spiders" to 'index' on their server all of your pages and to 'follow all' of the links on your site to be indexed.
Here is a list of all that you can do with the spiders and description of it ... from http://www.html-reference.com/META_name_robots.htm
Attributes:
<meta name="Robots" content="text">
text is one of the following four combinations.
all Same as index,follow.
index,follow The default, meaning index the page and follow all links from the page.
noindex, follow don't index the page but do follow all links from the page.
index,nofollow index the page, but do not proceed to the links from the page.
noindex,nofollow do not index the page and do not proceed to links from the page.
none same as noindex,nofollow.
noimageindex Altavista only. Prevents the images on the page from being indexed, but the text on the page can still be indexed. May be included index, noindex, follow and nofollow.
Examples:
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="noindex,nofollow">
Don't index the current page, and do not continue following links from the page.
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