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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.)

categories Usability, Web Design
tags meta-tag, meta-tag-refresh

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4 Responses to “Meta Tag Refresh Faux Paux”

  1. #1 paul responds...
    July 19th, 2006 at 1:01 am

    Faux pas.

    I’l ne faux pas faire ca!

  2. #2 Anders responds...
    July 20th, 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. #3 Olaf responds...
    October 24th, 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. #4 Rolf André responds...
    January 5th, 2007 at 5:28 am

    @Paul: Faux pas: yes!

    But: Il ne faut pas faire ça!

    Just to completely fix it ;-)

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