whats happening here with index,follow

[astoller]

Can you explain what is happening here on this index page?
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=silver watch.html">

There is no text, and the browser and engines are sent elsewhere.
Surely there needs to be text and no refreshing?

[g1smd]

They are redirecting surfers to a new page with the meta refresh tag.

Google is supicious of meta refresh. It is used by spammers. They think that if they set up hundreds of such pages then they can have the same bit of content indexed many times, each with a different URL.

Google knows better than to index any content on the page with the meta refresh as the surfer doesn't actually get a chance to see it.

Some people have tried to do an onmouseover redirect to revive this old spam method, but Google detects and bans that too now.

In this case, Google might follow the link to the new page and index it. Putting any content on the page that has the redirect on would probably show a red flag to Google. Good job the webmaster didn't do that.

The site has a problem though. You should not use spaces in filenames. The redirect might fail in some browsers.

You shouldn't use underscores either, but that is another story.