cds — Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:44:00 +0000

Brooke,
Was just browsing at searchenginewatch.com and I ran across this statement.

The meta refresh tag is one typical way of doing this. Some search engines will refuse to index a page with a high meta refresh rate. Infoseek will not index
pages with any redirection, whatsoever.
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cds — Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:08:00 +0000

Brooke,

RE: Search Engines Check out that pamphlet that comes with Web Position. It has info on using Meta refresh. On engines like Alta Vista where you just submit one page and it spiders the rest, you could just submit the target page and skip the intro page. Just a thought.

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John Pollock — Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:50:00 +0000

Solobox:

Patrick caught it before I did, write the meta tag this way and it should work:

Get it all on one line, the forum box adds a line break.

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JP Stones — Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:36:00 +0000

Patrick, you're confused
The code I wrote works (bar the explantion which Brooke figured out) Solobox has the problem.
Pay attention man!
JP

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Brooke — Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:26:00 +0000

Thanks for the code JP! It worked great! I really appreciate the help!

Brooke

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Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:17:00 +0000

what i think is, you got problems with the refresh....
just have a look at the code, solobox wrote and you'll find out what's wrong!
cu
patrick
btw: it's the part behind "content"

John Pollock — Wed, 09 Jun 1999 21:28:00 +0000

Is it the refresh tag or the script that is giving you the problem?

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solobox — Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:40:00 +0000

Any Idea why this isn't working?

JP Stones — Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:16:00 +0000

To refresh the page put this is the head command (replace time in seconds):
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="time in seconds; URL=http://www.etc.com">

Re: the SE's - it is not advisable, but as long as you keep the refresh over 30 seconds I think you can get away with it.
JP

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