Automatic Page Refresh - How do I?
Hi everyone...I have a page that I need to create, so that when the home page appears it will have a welcome notice and then automatically take the visitor to a new page.
I first need to know if this is okay to do as far as the search engines are concerned...
And I need to know how to do this?
Can anyone help?
TIA!
Brooke
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JP Stones posted this at 19:16 — 9th June 1999.
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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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solobox posted this at 20:40 — 9th June 1999.
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Any Idea why this isn't working?
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
<!--
function displayWindow(url, width, height) {
var Win = window.open(url,"displayWindow",'width=' + width +
',height=' + height + ',resizable=0,scrollbars=yes,menubar=no' );
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1"; URL="javascript:displayWindow('chatroom.html',640,450)">
</HEAD>
</HTML>
John Pollock posted this at 21:28 — 9th June 1999.
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Is it the refresh tag or the script that is giving you the problem?
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Anonymous posted this at 22:17 — 9th June 1999.
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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"
Brooke posted this at 22:26 — 9th June 1999.
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Thanks for the code JP! It worked great! I really appreciate the help!
Brooke
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businesses and individuals!
JP Stones posted this at 22:36 — 9th June 1999.
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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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John Pollock posted this at 19:50 — 10th June 1999.
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Solobox:
Patrick caught it before I did, write the meta tag this way and it should work:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=javascript:displayWindow('chatroom.html',640,450)">
Get it all on one line, the forum box adds a line break.
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cds posted this at 20:08 — 10th June 1999.
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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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cds posted this at 22:44 — 11th June 1999.
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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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Dan
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Dan
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