How to Stop Google Results From Redirecting a Web Page
Meta refresh tags in your HTML pages redirect users who click on a Google link to a different page of your website. To stop users from redirecting, you must remove the meta refresh tag at the top of the page. After you remove the refresh, the Google results page no longer redirects users when they find your site in the search engine.
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Instructions
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Right-click the HTML page that displays in the Google search results. Select "Open With," then double-click your HTML editor program.
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Find the meta refresh tags. The meta refresh tag is placed between the "<head>" and "</head>" tags. You can distinguish the refresh tag from other meta tags because the tag contains the property labeled "HTTP-EQUIV='REFRESH'."
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Remove the tag. You must delete the meta tag and any of the refresh properties located in the tag. The following code is an example of a meta refresh tag you must delete to stop redirection:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="5; URL=newpage.htm">
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Press the "Ctrl" and "S" keys to save the changes to the file. Upload the new page to your host provider server.
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Tips & Warnings
You must wait for Google to recrawl the site for the new changes to display in the search results.
