can I use meta refresh to redirect the crawler to the new page?

[seolion]

Hi,

I had moved some of my pages in a site some 4 months back. i didn't use any redirection methods. MSN could pick up the new pages as I had updated the navigation.

Problem came with yahoo. Yahoo still have my old page urls and that is what shown in their index. Can I use meta refresh to redirect the crawler if it visits the same old location?

I cant use any other redirection as mysite is in IIS and the pages were html and not ASP.

[prawin]

I think you need 301 redirect.
This will definately take care that you wont loose any of your SE rankings.
There must be some threads around here for your solutions.

Just my opinion.

Prawin

[seolion]

Hi Prawin,

My issue is that it is IIS and html page.
So .htacces business..

The folder that contained old files are not fully transferred. So redirecting the whole folder to new location is also ruled out.

meta refresh is the one option left to me. If any other alternative suiting my requirement will be appreciated.