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More META tags:
There are many meta tags that you can use, here are some:
Page Generator:
Your page generator is search engine speak for the program you used to write your pages. This is not really necessary. I always check out this meta tag for everypage i visit to see what program they used to build their pages, and most of them use Microsoft Front Page. It's good, not bad, but I love my Dreamweaver more.
<meta name="generator" content="Dreamweaver 4">
Author:
Pretty obvious what this one's for
meta name="author" content="Moe88">
Refresh (client pull):
Using this tag you can have your page automatically refresh itself to the most current version, or change to another page entirely after a set number of seconds. This is useful if you've moved a page to a new url and want any visitors to the old address to be instantly redirected to your new location. The format is shown below:
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=newurl.html">
The number 5 is the number of seconds to wait before changing to the new page. Set it to 0 for an immediate switch.
Meta Robots Tag:
One other meta tag worth mentioning is the robots tag. This lets you specify that a particular page should NOT be indexed by a search engine. To keep spiders out, simply add this text between your header tags on each page you don't want indexed.(Be aware that not all search engines support the meta robots tag) The format is shown below:
<META name="robots" content="noindex">
Expiring:
Tell the search engines to take your page out of their index at a certain date if you want. This is helpful if your page is only valid up until a certain date, or something.
<meta name="expires" content="13 July 2001">
Revisit me:
Ask the engine to revisit your page after a period and index it again.
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days">
Copyright:
Pretty obvious what this one's for
<META name="copyright" content="2002-2003">