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Meta Tag Refresh Faux Paux

July 17th, 2006

If, for some unfathomable reason, you put a meta tag refresh on every page of your site, you may want to consider not putting it on any page with a form on it. Especially a long complicated form. 30 minutes may seem like a long time to fill out a form, but sometimes people answer the phone or get up for a coffee break. Perhaps the refresh may even make them decide that they have better things to do than pursuing a transaction with your lame site. (Like blog about how lame you are.)

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6 Responses to “Meta Tag Refresh Faux Paux”

  1. paul says:
    7/19/2006 at 1:01 am

    Faux pas.

    I’l ne faux pas faire ca!

  2. Anders says:
    7/20/2006 at 12:36 pm

    What about a Sudoku game on the site of a newspaper (swedish) that refreshes? Don’t try a too high level!

  3. Olaf says:
    10/24/2006 at 3:09 pm

    It’s better to not use the meta refresh if you like your listing at Google ;)

    Some search engines could see this as a redirect or doorway pages, by the way on regular pages you don’t need are fresh

  4. Rolf André says:
    1/5/2007 at 5:28 am

    @Paul: Faux pas: yes!

    But: Il ne faut pas faire ça!

    Just to completely fix it ;-)

  5. Kelli Fuentez says:
    6/26/2010 at 12:24 am

    Hay brother Good night.I am agree with your blog opinion about that but i found something ridiculous that i felt you did not know the main problem before you posting this so i want to ask :where do you know about this dude ? Regards owner of photoshopvideotraining.com bye

  6. Andres Carithers says:
    8/8/2010 at 6:15 am

    I like the way you catch the substance of the concept, truly excellent writting approach, I enojoyed it!

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