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No meta refresh redirects

SEO-META-06C2 Recommended· w4

Class
C2 Recommended
Weight
4
Severity on fail
major
Applies to
Google

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Scope and evidence

Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement DOCUMENTED RECOMMENDATION, SEARCH-ENGINE-SPECIFIC.

A refresh without a URL (a timed reload) is info, not a failure.

Fail conditions

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • meta_refresh_redirect

    {url} redirects with <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="{content}">. For redirects, Google recommends a server-side 301 redirect instead.

The documented fix

Replace with a server-side 301 or 308.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.