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@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ A collection of HTML head elements.
<meta name="keywords" content="your,keywords,here,comma,separated,no,spaces">
<meta name="description" content="150 chars">
<meta name="subject" content="your website's subject">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="googlebot" content="index,follow">
<meta name="google" content="nositelinkssearchbox">
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="verification_token">
@ -41,39 +42,32 @@ A collection of HTML head elements.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self'">
```
### Deprecated/Legacy
Below are the meta attributes which are either deprecated or not supported anymore:
### Not Recommended
Below are the meta attributes which are not recommended for use:
```html
<!-- Deprecated because: Used to declare the document language, but not well supported. Better use <html lang=""> -->
<!-- Used to declare the document language, but not well supported. Better to use <html lang=""> -->
<meta name="language" content="en">
<!-- Deprecated because: Ignored by search engines. Better use robots.txt or modify .htaccess -->
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<!-- No evidence of current use in any search engines -->
<meta name="revised" content="Sunday, July 18th, 2010, 5:15 pm">
<!-- Deprecated because: No evidence of 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">
<!-- Deprecated because: Provides a easy way for bots to get emails from websites -->
<meta name="reply-to" content="email@example.com">
<!-- Deprecated because: Better to use <link rel="author"> or humans.txt file -->
<!-- Better to use <link rel="author"> or humans.txt file -->
<meta name="author" content="name, email@example.com">
<!-- Deprecated because: Better to use <link rel="author"> or humans.txt file -->
<meta name="designer" content="">
<!-- Deprecated because: Better to use <link rel="author"> or humans.txt file -->
<meta name="owner" content="">
<!-- Deprecated because: Telling the search bots to revisit the page after a period. This is not supported because most of the Search Engines nowadays have random intervals for recrawling a webpage -->
<!-- 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">
<!-- Google strongly advises not to use this. Better to set up Apache redirects instead -->
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300;url=https://example.com/">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300;url=https://example.com/">
<!-- Cache Control -->
<!-- Deprecated because: There's no point in doing cache control on client side. It is better to configure it on server side than in meta data -->
<!-- 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">
@ -120,8 +114,8 @@ Below are the meta attributes which are either deprecated or not supported anymo
<!-- More info: https://css-tricks.com/prefetching-preloading-prebrowsing/ -->
```
### Deprecated/Legacy
Below are the link relations which are either deprecated or not supported anymore:
### Not Recommended
Below are the link relations which are not recommended for use:
```html
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="path/to/favicon.ico">