Hello! I have the following question: I have a niche site that targets a group of keywords. The site is within first 10 results on Google for these keywords. If I add a meta HTML redirect: <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html"> Code (markup): and the visitors will be redirected to another site as soon as the original one loads... would this affect the site ranking? In other words, would the search engines still treat the site exactly the way the did before? Is there a better (safer in terms of SEO) redirect method? Thank you!
yes it would seriously effect the ranking. if you want to make a permanent redirect use 301 redirect.
Here are some tips from Google and Redirecting your pages If you need to change the URL of a page as it is shown in search engine results, we recommended that you use a server-side 301 redirect. This is the best way to ensure that users and search engines are directed to the correct page. The 301 status code means that a page has permanently moved to a new location.
Meta refresh tags should be used as long as you want your visitors to see the target blog. Search engines wont follow the source blog and also the target blog hence your blogs wont get any rep.and may be in future both your blogs will be blocked as Google will consider you as a spammer