Remove “not recommended” tags

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Josh Buchea 2017-04-26 22:41:10 -07:00
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@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ A list of everything that could go in the `<head>` of your document
- [Recommended Minimum](#recommended-minimum)
- [Elements](#elements)
- [Meta](#meta)
- [Meta: Not Recommended](#meta-not-recommended)
- [Link](#link)
- [Favicons](#favicons)
- [Social](#social)
@ -156,60 +155,6 @@ Below are the essential tags for basic, minimalist websites:
- [ICBM on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICBM_address#Modern_use)
- [Geotagging on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging#HTML_pages)
### Meta: Not Recommended
Below are the meta attributes which are not recommended for use as they had low adoption rate, or have been deprecated:
```html
<!-- Google disregards & Bing considers it an indicator of spam -->
<meta name="keywords" content="your,keywords,here,comma,separated,no,spaces">
<!-- No evidence of current use in any search engines -->
<meta name="revised" content="Sunday, July 18th, 2010, 5:15 pm">
<!-- Provides an easy way for spam bots to harvest email addresses -->
<meta name="reply-to" content="email@example.com">
<!-- Better to use <link rel="author"> or humans.txt file -->
<meta name="author" content="name, email@example.com">
<meta name="designer" content="">
<meta name="owner" content="">
<!-- Tells search bots to revisit the page after a period. This is not supported because most Search Engines now use random intervals for re-crawling a webpage -->
<meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">
<!-- Sends user to a new URL after a certain amount of time -->
<!-- The W3C recommends that this tag not be used. Google recommends using a server-side 301 redirect instead. -->
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300; url=https://example.com/">
<!-- Describes the topic of the website -->
<meta name="topic" content="">
<!-- Brief summary of the company or purpose of the website -->
<meta name="summary" content="">
<!-- A deprecated tag that does the same as the keywords meta tag -->
<meta name="classification" content="business">
<!-- Does the same as URL, older and not supported -->
<meta name="identifier-URL" content="https://example.com/">
<!-- Similar function to the keywords tag -->
<meta name="category" content="">
<!-- Makes sure your website shows up in all countries and languages -->
<meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide">
<!-- Does the same as the coverage tag -->
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<!-- Controls what user can access on the internet -->
<meta http-equiv="Pics-label" content="value">
<!-- Cache Control -->
<!-- Better to configure cache control server side -->
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
```
## Link