Meta tags explained

You may want search engines to index your page, or not, and you probably don't want them to follow links in your main page. Google may archive your page, you can tell it not to.

View the source of this page to see a sample, well, here it is:

<meta name="author" content="Lin Jensen">
<meta name="date" content="2007-10-04T16:48:19-0400">
<meta name="copyright" content="&copy; 2007 Lin Jenen">
<meta name="keywords" content="meta tags, html">
<meta name="description" content="What the page is about">
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOARCHIVE">
<meta name="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">

• I used Bluefish, and it put in the date!
  
• I don't want robots here at all
• I don't want the page cached, as it is being constantly updated (not true in this case)
• Expires 0 means the page is always out of date. An explicit expiry date requires a precicse format. Normally you don't want or need this. On the other hand, weather reports might.
• I would like you to put in yourself as author
  <meta name="author" content="Bart Simpson">