Redirect on index.html page....

I am moving a site to a new server. The old site was using a framed url redirect to a different server. The site server address of http://somehostingcompany.whatever/thisdomain/ was being redirected to from anyone who typed www. thisdomain .com.

I hope that makes sense. Anyways, I have now got the DNS properly set and two a server that is going to properly host the site, but many people has found the "other domain" (http://somehostingcompany.whatever/thisdomain/) through the se's and have bookmarked the page.

I want to be able to place one page at the old server address (an index.html) that will both forward to the new address in say 5-8 seconds and will ask them to bookmark the new site.

Here is what I have so far:

html>

head>

title>New Site Redirect/title>

META
http-equiv="refresh" content="15;URL=http://www. site location">

/head>


body bgcolor="#ffffff">


You will be redirected to the new site
in 15 seconds.

Please bookmark the new location at a
href="http://www. site location .com">http://www. site location .com/a>

a
href="http://www. site location .com">Click here to be taken there without waiting.../a>

/body>

/html>

Am I doing this correctly? Is this the best way SEO wise to do this redirect for the SE SPiders? Do I need to add different meta info?

 

The best way to redirect for SE is to set HTTP 301 Redirect by writing php script which will redirect user (and SE spider) to your new page, you'll also get all your backlicks updated in SEs.

 

META Refresh is frowned on by Google.

Google prefers 301 Redirects.

 

I don't have access to any of the error pages or htaccess