Ethical SEO company - Web Designer - Emarketing Consultant - New Jersey : New York

Question: Is it OK to use a meta refresh tag?

Answer: The meta refresh tag is still a valid html tag.  However, since it has been abused so much, so often by spammers and black hat seo companies, it has become a "bad" though legal tag.

We do not use it anywhere.

If we need to redirect a user to a new page, we use a .htaccess 301 redirect.

It is seamless and give the user a much better experience.

The search engines like 301 redirects.