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Consequences of SEO Redirects with META REFRESH

Q: What are the implications of SEO for redirecting web traffic with META REFRESH?

Details: I am working with an old static site that migrates to a new address. I redirect traffic to a new site using meta refreshes on all static pages, for example:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.newsite.com/">

Of course, I would rather write the redirect directly to the Apache file (or the .htaccess file), but due to some weirdness of the server that is beyond my control, I am stuck in meta updates.

So I wonder what are the implications here? Will site search ranking be affected? Will the new site be indexed? I read that Google (and others) will treat the update as a suitable 301 redirect if it is set to 0 seconds (something longer will be considered spam). How will analytics affect?

What is the true behavior here? Any thoughts?

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, - 0sec 301, , Google. . http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

http://www.oldsite.com/

<head>
...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com/" />
...
</head>

http://www.newsite.com/awesomepage.html

<head>
...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.newsite.com/awesomepage" />
...
</head>

..

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