404 Page not Found - Validation Fails

Shawn, my site won't validate when pages have been removed. I think it would be good if when the validation process is taking place that any code 404 ignores the page and moves on to the next one as many pages in google's cache have now been removed from my site. Thanks.

 

It would be good practise to have those 404's 301ed to the index or some search page which strips the referral URL and looks for clues as to which page might have been looked for. When the landing page has the ads, you'll validate again.

If the coop system finds it, then real users will find those missing pages as well.

 

generate a custom 404 which not only looks better for any visitots but also allows to send a mail to admin with the references and you can show the ad's

M

 

Thanks for the tips guys i think i'll go for the custom 404 page, does google still see the page as not found because i don't really want the page to be cached or indexed?

 

I'm not quite sure how to do that in IIS and the sites have validated ok now, so i guess i will leave the pages to be removed from googles index. Great Job with the network, beginning to see some great results.

 

a quick guide to IIS 404 is here http://www.highcontext.com/Articles/howto/404.phpprobably best is to e-mail your hosting provider and tell them which page to use.

I use 404 including a litle script so I see notifaction when a pages drops out

example
<?php
$today = date("j F Y, G:i:s");
$message = "Date and Time: $today\nRequest URL: http://$SERVER_NAME$REQUEST_URI\nReferring page: $HTTP_REFERER\n\nClient: $HTTP_USER_AGENT\nRemote IP: $REMOTE_ADDR\n\n";
$message .= "This is an automated message.\n\nHave a nice day.";
mail("adminmail", "Error 404-xxx", $message, "From: : ");

?>
have fun
M