I hope this is the right forum. If not I am sorry. I have a blog. I update my blog daily. Has does does the search engine see a meta redirect code? Will i still rank with the keywords i am targeting? I started was on page 4 and now I check this morning i am no longer listed. The blog is less then a month old. Is the reason i am no longer listed because the blog is so new Thanks
Are you not listed for your domain name? I would be concerned if it's a penalty. Login to your webmaster tools account and see if you can find any crawling errors. Meta redirects (refresh) is not SEO friendly and you should use 301 redirects if you want the destination URL to get link juice.
Create an empty text file on notepad and save it as ".htaccess". Upload it to your domain root. To do a 301 redirect write to the .htaccess file, for example: Redirect 301 /old.html http://www.yournewdomain.com/index.html And save it. Be carefull with spaces and slashes.
Yes, more than likely. But without your URL we can neither confirm nor deny. Google usually shows new sites/URLs on page 1 or 2 of the SERPs for what they believe are relevent keywords when they are first indexed. This is often called the Google "honeymoon". Your new site appears to be ranking well for a few days or even a few weeks. There are many theories about 'why' Google does this. Some say it is because they are trying to gather data for initial ranking factors that can only be determined if people actually see your URL in the SERPs like possibly click-thru-rate. Others say it is a way to get late breaking news or fads to the top of the SERPs quickly. Regardless of the why, after a few days or weeks in the limelight, your new URL suddenly disappears and cannot seem to be found. The webmaster starts freaking out and showing up places like this wondering whether he's been penalized by Google. Don't fret... It's PERFECTLY normal. All that has happened is that the "honeymoon" is over and you have fallen way back into the SERPs where you should have been ranking naturally all along. Consider your brief 15 min (or days) of fame as Google throwing you a bone... giving you a taste of what life could be like for your site if you work hard and eventually rank well. Simply continue to develop new, unique, compelling content for your site. Try to get the word out to others about your site and develop a following. This will lead to getting backlinks. The backlinks will lead to improved rankings. And one day maybe you'll make page 1. PS: Not sure if I understand your question about meta refresh. Generally it's not good for SEO if you're using them. If you move a page from one URL to the other, it's always best to 301 redirect the old URL to the new URL. This will give the new URL credit for all of the old URL's inbound links, page rank, and the link text used in the old URL's inbound links.
I did not understand your question well. Are you saying you are using a meta redirect? Or are you concerned that the search engines may be getting redirected elsewhere?