Web Page Refresh
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Hi there,
we redesign our Website, changing it for a jquery based version. This new design is much more usable and nice for our users, however the average page views for user decreased a lot. Basically this is due to the fact that once the user is logged in, it spends most of the time in the same Web form which is updated through jquery without refreshing it.
We were thinking about adding a meta refresh tag, or ad some javascript for getting this task done in order to get the relation page views/visitor increased.
Do you think refreshing the page every 4 minutes could be penalized by Google (or other Search engines) ?
Which should be the interval between refresh ?
Would it be better to make it very explicit (i.e. adding a meta refresh tag) or using a kind of hide javascript ?
We want to increase the pageviews but of course, we don't want to get penalized
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Meta refresh is not a good idea.
here is a bit more on it -
You should not do that. There is no benefit to users and no need for you to artificially inflate page views per visit or anything. If users are spending time on your site and not bouncing or having any kind of trouble then what is the point of refreshing?
You will know that the page views are fake so what purpose does it serve?
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What is the point of the refresh? It seems the sole purpose is to manipulate your metrics in which case that would be a bad idea. Do your users receive any benefit from this refresh?
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