Redirect - will it have any negative effect?

someone links to an old page

[Monkscuba]

Hi,

I was browsing our referrer data today and found that the 23rd highest referrer is linking to an old page that we moved to a different web site. The link is in an old forum, so I don't think I can get that changed, so I have recreated the old page as a basic template with a redirect to the correct page thus:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="3; url=http://www.otherwebsite.com/correctpage.htm">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Is that OK? Would it have any negative effect?

Thanks for any comments.

[Dijkgraaf]

Well the Meta Refresh is not read by all bots.

A better option would be to issue a 301 Redirect with the new URL. How you do this depends on the type of web server you are running, and what sort of access or scripting languages you have access to.