Comments on: Google and Yahoo accept undelayed meta refreshs as 301 redirects

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:31:46 +0000

Kevin, try it with an absolute URL:
meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://example.com/main/action.html”

By: KEVIN

KEVIN — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:37:24 +0000

Will a meta refresh cause a long delay: I am using the following and there is a 4-5 second delay the fist time you load the page:
META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” CONTENT=”0;URL=main/Main.action”
There is just a white page. Then 5 seconds, then the page redirects and loads.

Any Ideas?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:27:11 +0000

Thank you! This was news to me and is about to make my life a lot easier! I’m going to tag it with del.icio.us!

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:11:19 +0000

Sometimes you really do have no choice but to use meta refresh. . .such as with Yahoo! which prevents users from ANY access to the .htaccess file.

Thanks for the info. I guess we don’t have to leave Yahoo! after all (although, I still wish we had not picked them when we started - avoid at all costs!!).

RyanOD

By: Prometeo

Prometeo — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:43:10 +0000

301 Weiterleitung vs. Meta Refresh…
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By: Tim Abracadabra

Tim Abracadabra — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:20:34 +0000

Thank you for the definitive answer wrt “meta refresh” redirects. Personaly, I would have thought the noindex meta would be implied and that would be sufficient but you make a good point about about making your intentions clear. Very thorough.

Getting Adam Lasnik’s input makes this already outstanding post good as gold.

Thanks Again,

Tim

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Do Meta Redirects Work? | FathomSEO Search Engine Marketing Blog — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:19:48 +0000

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By: Sergi

Sergi — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:31:13 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation.

I had to use it lately, I didn’t know how Google would react and I set a 2 seconds delay.

It takes less than 2 weeks for the old pages to disappear from Google’s SERPs.
Yahoo! index still have a few of them.