meta refresh tag

[djschick]

Hello,

My question is about using the meta tag to refresh a page.

I know that it is not the best idea to use this kind of tag for redirecting to another page. ie: something like <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="http://url_of_new_page.html">. I know that this can be easily detected by search engines and seen as possibly misleading with doorway pages, etc.

My question is whether it is totally safe to use it without redirecting to another page, like <meta http-equiv="refresh"> so that the page is always refreshed with new updates when the user visits and they don't get a chached version of the page. I'm pretty sure this is safe, but I'm ultra paranoid when it comes to SEO things that I'm not 100% sure about.

Thanks a bunch! :)

[Mertu]

If you're worried about cached copies of the same page, you should probably first try

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
and
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">

Between the two, most browsers shouldn't put a copy of the page in their caches to begin with--forcing them to get new ones each visit.

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums djschick! :hi:

[djschick]

thanks for the info