SEO Urban Legend #1: The Dangers of the Refresh Meta Tag

Well...hopefully this will satisfy some of the SEO appetite of R&S's voracious readers...nothing too profound, I just thought I'd go ahead and start another family of posts. We started out with "SEO Tip#" and now we have "SEO Urban Legend#."
I thought we could start out with the idea that has been bantered about on SEO forums and in various articles, that it is somehow dangerous, from the perspective of SEO, to employ the use of the, very-useful-when-employed-correctly, Refresh Meta Tag. As with most misinformed ideas regarding SEO, this one can easily be taken care of by stepping into the shoes of the search engines themselves.
Do the search engines really want to penalize sites for using a completely justifiable means of redirection, when the need arises? Umm...no. Besides, as there *are* legitimate uses of the Refresh Meta Tag, how could a search engine (which, let's face it, is not all that intelligent) possibly know when the tag is being used nefariously? It can't actually. Sure, it won't index the page that's been refreshed (duh!), but it won't penalize a site for using this tag.

Oh! And a Happy Memorial Day to all!

Busy. But still time for Blingo.

Well, I'm down to just one "busy," so there's definitely time for a post. Although I'm well aware that content is king...especially fresh content, sometimes life just doesn't leave you the time to do all the things you'd like to do...you know?
My new job has kept me on my toes for the past month, and I'm still processing everything that's happened. So...a post on Blingo is all I can muster right now.
Have you been out to Blingo.com? If not, you're missing opportunities to win great prizes just for using their search engine (well, actually, it's powered by Google). Another attempt to cash in on Google's advertising success. We'll just have to wait and see if they're in business in six months' time.
Sorry...that wasn't all that exciting.
I promise that the next post will be SEO related...a nice juicy post full of useful SEO info...
Promise.

Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, busy

Yes, life has become even more busy than it was during my last post...I should have anticipated as much, with the start of a new job! I know that my personal life is of little interest to readers of Rank and Smile, except insomuch as it greatly affects my ability to blog...which is, naturally, why I brought it up in the first place. Alas.