If you are planning to create or already created a website with GooglePages you must be aware of one little thing. If someday you'll want to move on to a regular, paid web hosting there will be a problem to do the right redirect to the new website.
How can I create the right redirect from an old website to the new one?
The best way to tell the search engines that your website moved, is with permanent redirect. The permanent redirect, which is referred to as 301 redirect, "sends" users and search engines from the old URL to the new one. The problem is that you cannot use any of 301 redirect methods with GooglePages.
You can accomplish the GooglePages redirect with Meta Refresh (method, that refreshes a web page after a given time interval). The disadvantage of Meta Refresh redirection is, that search engines will show the old website address in the search results. In addition, Meta Refresh is common spam technique. It is recommended to set the meta refresh to at least 5 seconds.
Meta Refresh Tag Sample
Redirect to www.mywebsiteadviser.com after 5 seconds:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=http://www.mywebsiteadivser">
Place the code between the <head> and </head> tags.
View Meta Refresh Sample.
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