Meta refresh redirects may be penalized Search Engine Guideline

Description

Meta refresh tags that redirect to another page can be penalized by Bing.

Applicable standards

• Bing

Change history

• 6.49 May 2023 Removed - no longer in Bing guidelines.
• 5.36 Jan 2020 Take X-Robots-Tag into account. Changed rule ID from SeoJavaScriptRefresh to SeoMetaRefresh.
• 5.5 May 2014 Fixed false positive.
• 5.1 Jan 2013 Added to Bing guidelines Dec 2012.
• 4.1 Aug 2010 Removed from Yahoo guidelines May 2010.
• 1.0 Feb 2007 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoMetaRefresh