A method of telling a web browser to automatically refresh the current web page after a specified time interval via an HTML meta tag element. A meta refresh is used for reloading your page or forcing your users to view a new page after a certain period of time. The coding for a meta refresh appears something like this:
 < META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=X;URL=your-site-page.html >

where you change the X to represent the number of seconds that you want the user to wait and the your-site-page.html represents the actual page that you are moving the user to.

The search engines treat the use of a meta refresh as a spam technique as a result of forcing the user to content that they may not knowingly want to visit. As a result when redirecting a user to a new page, the search engines prefer the use of the permanent (301 redirect) redirection method. Examples of meta refresh. To refresh a page after 3 seconds you would use the following:
 "< meta http-equiv=refresh content=3 / >".

From an SEO point of view, Enquiro does not recommend the use of a meta refresh.