What To Do With Your 404 error pages
Today I’ve been going through any expired web site links of mine i.e. 404 error landing pages, and replacing them with the message that’s at this sample page:
http://www.forwardsteps.com.au/404-ErrorPageTemplate.htm
I noticed in my CPanel that I had collected a few visitors to 404 error pages and didn’t want them slipping through the “net”.
I thought that I’d share it in this group in case it’s something that some of you might want to be doing, or hadn’t even considered.
For example, one of my expired pages had 513 visitors during September alone. That’s a lot of ‘escapees’! (Smile)
With certain pages, I will even suggest the page that they might have missed by clicking on the expired link e.g. http://www.forwardsteps.com.au/TUOP.htm
If you want to easily see all of the web pages that you personally created then simply place the words site: in front of your domain e.g. site:www.forwardsteps.com.au and put that into a Google search.
It is excellent for when you’re doing jobs like this.
Oh yes, and one more little thing about all the above. Include the meta name “robots” to be no index and no follow, see this information link. You don’t want to be penalized in your Google rankings for duplicate sites/content.
Those of you who haven’t a clue what I’m writing about. No panic. It’s all a nice little extra and not at all urgent. Those who get it, can certainly see value in this task when creating and demolishing links all over the shop! (Smile)
Meantime, you may also love this resource by Mike Filsaime about 404 error pages.
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