build a 404 page !!

just thought i would mention it....

i have noticed a lot of sites that do not have a 404 page
and simply have an error page,
thats a lot of traffic you could be missing.

page finder

 

Do you really think people will bother trying to find their location in that haystack of links?

 

no, its just an example.......... you can build your own however you want to

 

When I worked for fortunecity.com back at the turn of the century, thier 404 page was thier greatest money spinner!

 

I'm lazy, so I just edit httpd.conf to redirect the user back to the index page.

ErrorDocument 404 /index.shtml 

Code (markup):

 

blackbug , tell us more about it - the money spinning part , i mean

 

Fortunecity was big on giving away free web space. By a combination of user crapness and people putting up content which we then deleted (dubious content, or spammers) the 404 page was served up a ludicrous amount of times daily. The 404 page then came up explaining that the page could not be found and served up some adverts. Simple.

I just checked and thier 404 page now just comes up blank. Idiots. Still, it was nice of them to relocate me from the UK to an office a few blocks north of Times Sq in NYC


Cheers

Chris

 

Did you?!? I just went there and it was a blank page. I don't know if that's the idea. I don't work there any more (haven't done for 5 years). I apologise for you seeing whatever it was you saw...

Idiots


Cheers

Chris

 

Here is a script I've seen for dynamic error pages.

 

or you can also redirect to your sitemap.