empty index

is it good to use redirect?

[weber]

Our programmer made a new web site. I notice that he used an empty index.html(contains only meta tags)to re-direct to another page(wwWebmasterWorldeb.com/mb/en/index.asp). My question is
1. is it good for search engine?
2. Why search engine only index one page although meta robots specified follow,index? Is it because of the index.html page?

[DrDoc]

Welcome to Webmaster World!

It's definitely better to not have the actual file there.
.htaccess and mod_rewrite are better tools for the job

[weber]

But will this effect the ranking in the search engine? Since the content was not detected.

[g1smd]

You'll want noindex in that tag instead.

[DrDoc]

What kind of redirect is it? If it's JavaScript - search engines can't read JS, so they won't follow the "link". If it's a meta tag - some search engines frown on immediate redirects.

So, no matter the scenario - you want a redirect through .htaccess/mod_rewrite. The redirect can be totally hidden from the search engine.

[weber]

It's a Java Script.

We are hosting the site by ourselves, using NT server. Can we use .htaccess?