Re: Referral code

One caution.

If this particular web page is the main index page for a site, you may run 
into problems with search engines and their spiders.  SEs may consider your 
main home page/redirect page as bogus, or worse yet, as subterfuge, for 
visitors by redirecting to a different home page.  While I have not keep 
up-to-the-minute on a daily basis with SEs and their reasons for doing what 
they do,  by using a redirect on a home page may cause the site not to be 
listed by the SE, or even banned entirely.

Redirect pages are best used for preventing 404 errors as mentioned in the 
previous post.  You may also accomplish the same thing by modifying the 
.htaccess file for Apache sites.  MS web server sites have a similar 
redirect system.  The beauty in following this latter option mean you only 
have one file per site listing your redirects as opposed to individual 
redirect pages.


At 05:14 2001-10-31 +0000, Jacqueline Sylvia wrote:
>Hi Janet,
>
>It is a META tag code that goes in the HEAD tag of the first page, and 
>sends you to a second page after a certain amount of time.  You can put 
>anything you want on the first page.  I've used it the way you've 
>suggested as well as a way to make a nice "intro" page without using flash.
>
>Here is the code, you can change the CONTENT number:
>
><META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="8;url=whateverpageyouwant">
>
>Good luck,
>Jacqueline Sylvia
>
>http://www.jswebsolutions.com
>
>From: Honeywebster(at)aol.com
>To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
>Subject: Referral code
>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:53:48 EST
>
>Before I lose my mind trying to remember and can't seem to find anywhere --
>what is the code you would put in HTML that would make a page automatically
>go to another page? (Isn't it a meta tag?)
>
>The pages often say something like:
>This page should automatically go to our home page in a few seconds. If it
>doesn't, please click here (and then a linked URL is inserted).
>
>I need to set up a few pages at URLs that no longer exist on the site.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Janet Zagoria
>Web Site Designer/Developer
>www.zagdesign.com
>
>
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