Depending on your reasons for the redirect, and how much importance you put on your site's Search Engine friendliness you may be better off setting up a 301 redirect to the new page.
You can do this either via your server config (if you have access to it), by setting up an .htaccess file or by using a scripting language such as PHP or ASP.
For expample. I had a page on my site called "blog.php". I changed this when I redesigned my site and wanted requests for blog.php to go to rant.php.
I used this code, and nothing else, in blog.php.
Code:
<? //301 redirect for blog page to rant page
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.foamcow.com/rant.php");[/URL]
header("Connection: close");
?>
I have done a similar thing using ASP for another site.
A 301 redirect will tell any "bot" that the page has moved permanently and to use the new URL next time it wants to reach the page. It will also redirect any browser request for that page to the new one.
I don't think Search engine bots particularly like META refresh tags as they were abused by spammers.
The 301 is a "better" way to do it, but if you want a quick and dirty redirect, there is nothing really wrong with the META refresh.
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