If You Must Re-direct, Use This
By: John Vinson
Re-direct is a function that I highly recommend against. The only time you really need to provide a re-direct of readers is when you own similar domain names and you want all of them going to a single target page. Barring that I highly recommend against the practice.
If you find yourself using re-direct this is the course of action to do so. It starts with a tag which goes inside your
tag. Then type in http-equiv=”refresh” inside your meta tag. This tells the browser to refresh. Next you’ll type content=”(amount of time til refresh);url= (web address). Basically, that tells the browser to refresh and then open the url.Re-directs are generally used for ads, or if there’s something that needs to be continually updated. Like a football game where the score is always updating. If you keep refreshing it can many times send the wrong signal to a user. Security problems are a main concern if a site refreshes on it’s own.
So be careful out there with your re-directs, and use them sparingly.
