How does meta refresh work

the meta-refresh code
will give your readers five minutes of time (that’s 300 seconds - you
can change it accordingly) before the page will be reloaded. It will
not redirect your users to any other page. It is really best suited for
pages using dynamic content such as weather maps, a collection of
weblog feeds or even stock ticker symbols. For those lazy users, ten
minutes may be an appropriate length of time and will give website
owners the ability to secure greater focus of the user if they are
aware that you are paying attention to how they are using the site.

How to use meta refresh codes

include the following code on a webpage in the header
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”300″>

How to use meta-refresh tags effectively…

While the length of time spent on a site varies on the type of site and
the content within it, reasons abound as to why someone would sit on a
static page for any length of time longer than a few minutes. In the event your site has live or dynamic content. Setting a meta-refresh between 1 and 5 minutes should keep everything updated while not causing an ‘overactive’ webpage loads and meta-refreshing.

Darth Guru advises not using this strategy to simply refresh ads (which will boost
your ad impressions) as it will most very likely annoy your users.

Darth Guru advises not using this strategy to simply refresh pages to boost page views (which will boost
your alexa compete ranking.com and trust gauge rating ) as it may quite possibly annoy your users.

Darth Guru warns using this method to simply reload popups popins pobehinds iframes or other scripts  (which may cause huge increase of views for these scripts )  may quite possibly be a form of fraud.

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