[thelist] SSI and search engines

[Karen J. Bowen]

rudy wrote:

>
> i used to have http-equiv="Expires" until i realized i did not want search
> engines to remove my pages from their index if i accidentally let time
> slide past the expires date (which happened once), and i didn't want to
> make it too far into the future, in case all my pages ended up sitting for
> months in some search engine cache with an old listing -- so in the end i
> left Expires out
>

ack - do they really remove them??!

I have always thought the Expires meta tag was just for the user's
browser - so for frequently updated pages I set it to 0 (zero)...  does
this mess with search engine indexing too?

I'm starting to feel a little queasy...

Thanks,
Karen