Auto-redirecting is the technique of automatically sending a site visitor to another page once s/he has landed on a page. The other page is often on the same website, but it can be on a different site altogether. In fact, auto-redirecting is used when a website has been set up for the sole purpose of ranking highly in the search engines. When visitors arrive at a page on the site, from a listing in the search engine results, they are automatically redirected to the main site.

The engines are not against auto-redirecting when it is done for they what consider to be a valid reason. E.g. when you have posted a message in a forum, you often get a confirmation page which will wait a few seconds and then auto-redirect you to the messages.

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