Meta Refresh Tags
Another one of my favourite things , the meta refresh tag is a powerful tool. A common meta refresh command will look like
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”600″>
This command is put in the tag of your document. the tells that the tag is meta. The http-equiv=”refresh” sends a command equivalent to the HTTP refresh command which tells the browser to refresh the content. 120 is the time in seconds after which the page should refresh itself.
A further modification of this command exists :-
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10;url=http://wisetechie.com”>
Here instead of the page refreshing you to same URL , you are in concept redirected to a new URL.
Use these tools wisely my friends 😛
I dug this from yahoo’s site
Yahoo!’s Web crawler recognizes standard HTTP result codes. The basic types of redirect recognized are:
- 301 – Permanent Redirect
- 302 – Temporary Redirect
This means you should keep the delay as low as possible , 0 seconds i recommend if you want search engines to think of your refresh as a hard redirect. That way SEO doesnt suffer.