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Google’s John Mueller warns site owners using meta refresh that doing so may lead to the wrong content getting indexed. That can happen because Google treats meta refresh as a redirect, meaning the page that the user ultimately lands on is the one that will get indexed. Site owners may run into problems using meta refresh in certain instances. For example, if an online store uses meta refresh to send a customer from a product listing page to a payment page. In that example, using meta refresh would be problematic because the payment page would get indexed and not the actual product page. Mueller addressed this topic when a question came up in a recent Webmaster Central hangout, where a person asked: “Some sites are using meta refresh after 5 seconds and redirecting the user to a payment page from the content. In this case does it impact their ranking? I still see their pages indexed with content behind payment, and Google User can’t see the content. What is Google’s re

Google’s John Mueller has confirmed the  March 7th algorithm update  did not necessarily target low quality sites. Rather, it had more to do with content relevance. Mueller revealed this information during a Google Webmaster Hangout held on April 6th. He was asked: ”If we have a site that was hit by the March 7th and 9th quality update that’s a legitimate site, it’s generating world-class quality content, getting lots of links — and it gets scraped. Now, after the update, the other scraper sites are ranking before us … what could we do to fix that?” First, Mueller clears up some confusion by explaining that most of Google’s algorithm updates are focused on relevance. If rankings were affected by last month’s update, it’s not an indication that a site’s content is of low quality. A lot of sites lose relevance over time, Mueller says, regardless of how high quality the content is. When it comes to figuring out how to make a site more relevant, Mueller suggests getting fee