Meta tag "revisit after" - useful?

[targi42]

Hi everybody,

I've rarely seen the "revisit after" meta tag during the last 1,5 years.

As some of my current client websites are still using it and I'm not sure, if it's still usefull/has any effect, I'd like to hear from the community. Any advices/hints/experiences with the tag?

Thanks in advance and cheers from Germany

Sven

[targi42]

Hi Alan,

thanks to you, too. I agree, it's only a hint, but a more common and useful one than this strange meta tag.

Take care and cheers from Germany

Sven

[AlanMosley]

Use sitemap to give the SE's this hint, i say hint because that is all it is,
<url< span="">>
       <a><loc></a>http://domain.com/pageloc></url<> <a><lastmod></a>2012-02-25T00:38:08Zlastmod>
       <a><changefreq></a>weeklychangefreq>
       <a><priority></a>0.5priority>
url>

[targi42]

Hi Shane,

thanks for your reply. That was my guess. But I'd like to have this confirmed by others.

Thanks again and cheers from Germany

Sven

[Jinx14678]

"With progressively less usage are four more name values: robots, to control whether spiders should index the page or follow any of its links; generator, used to indicate what tool was used to generate the page; author, used to give the name of the author; and revisit-after, supposedly used to tell search engines how often to recrawl the page. **To our knowledge only one search engine has ever supported it, and that search engine was never widely used — at this point, it is nothing more than a good luck charm. A remarkably widely used one. **More pages use the completely worthless  than use the _ element!"_

https://developers.google.com/webmasters/state-of-the-web/2005/metadata