<p>I have a site with over 100 pages. We need to go live with products that are soon available, however, many site pages will not be prepared at the time of release.</p>

<p>In order to move forward, I would like to reference a "coming soon" page with links to pages that are current and available.</p>

<p>Is there an easy way to forward a URL to a Coming Soon page?
Is this valid, or is there a better way?</p>

<p>Found this at:
<a href="http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.web-source.net/html_redirect.htm</a></p>

<p>"Place the following HTML redirect code between the  and  tags of your HTML code.</p>

<pre><code>   meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html"
</code></pre>

<p>Does this negatively affect you if the search engines crawl through your site?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

Perhaps a better or "more correct way" would be to do the redirection at the header level. Using PHP, you would call
```
```
<?php
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html");
```
```
There's also ways to do this in Apache (assuming you are using it) and
```
.htaccess
```
-files. See
http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml
for more info about that.