Meta Refresh
There’s a tag called meta refresh which is a bit out of date but still used by a lot of sites. The reason why I am covering the meta refresh tag is I haven’t covered it or mention it once on my blog so here’s my definition of the meta tag.
Meta refresh tag is used to tell the web browsers to refresh the page after a given time, so for example you would use this meta refresh tag.
<meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“5″ />
This tag is telling the web browser to refresh after 5 seconds, you can also adapt the tag to tell the web browser to redirect to another url after a set time, so for example you would use this refresh tag.
<meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“5;url=http://example.com/” />
The downside to using redirects like this is it isn’t classed as user friendly and can lead customer to press the back button and leave your site.
The use of the meta refresh tag is still used today but if you want to redirect a url for good then its best to use a 301 redirect.
Also take a look at the meta geo tag in detail to decide weather or not you really need to use it.