The meta refresh tag is used to refresh the web page after the time frame we set. In the above meta tag it will refresh the web page after 5 seconds.
Use Meta Refresh tag to redirect your visitor
To redirect your visitor to a different URL from the landing page you can use the meta refresh tag as provided below.
The above meta tag will redirect visitors to a destination URL after 5 seconds. To redirect visitor to the destination URL without any delay we need to set the time frame to zero. The code should be like the following one.
Risk factors using redirect tags
Many time visitors will be unsatisfied with the redirection and you may loose some loyal visitors. The second issue is ,now it can be treated as a black hat SEO trick to gain traffic by fooling visitors and spiders to new URL. So if you like to use this tag ,you should think twice. The best method to implement redirect from one URL to another is by 301 redirection.
Using 302 redirect is not considered as good SEO practice now due to many redirection exploitations.
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