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Refreshing the Page

Some pages need to be refreshed every so often.  For example, news sites often automatically refresh to keep the information current.  The following tag will cause a page to refresh every minute.

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”60”>

But you can also refresh to another page.  This is useful when you move a page but still want a message to pop-up to visitors coming to the old page informing them of the change.  The following will redirect a visitor to another url after 10 seconds.

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”10;http://www.bobsmithphotography.net”>

Although you can, and in most cases should, use a 301 redirect instead if possible.  A 301 redirect is invisible to the visitor and most search engines will pick up the new address and start using it instead.