Enhance 404 pages (Experimental) NEW in Webmaster Tools

Has anyone tried this?

Here is some of what they say

Anyone tried it yet? I only just noticed it was there.

Cheers
James

 

404 widget? Where is it?

 

Log in to your webmaster tools, in the tools tab on the left, you should see the new feature.

Cheers
James

 

I haven't used it, but I was wondering why all of a sudden Google has been all about the 404's recently... especially over at their official blog.

 

404 seem to be on Googles agenda

 

I agree, but I don't know if this will help people in my situation.

I am unsure what to do about the 404's, I can set a custom one up, but unfortunately, when I set up my hosting plan, I went with the deluxe hosting plan with Godaddy, on a windows server.
I got the deluxe plan because it enabled me to host multiple domains on one plan.
I can set up a custom 404 page through the Godaddy control panel, but only one. which means I have to make a page that will serve all domains hosted.
I was hoping that this widget from Google would somehow automatically create a link to the homepage of the top level domain the person was trying to reach. maybe it does! I will have to try it.
It will good if it does, I will report my findings once I get some time to try it.

Cheers
James

 

Just a thought, what if you create a custom 404 at Godaddy, with a script to redirect to Google's 404 depending on the domain?

 

May be 404 widget from google in your site will let google gone far from other competitor search engine.

 

That may work, but as I am a person that has only just started to grasp the concept of HTML, writing a script is Way above me

Just looking at the widget code, it seems that it is domain specific.
EG:

<style type="text/css">
  #goog-wm { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match a { }
  #goog-wm h3.other-things { }
  #goog-wm ul li { }
  #goog-wm li.search-goog { display: block; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
  var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = '[B]http://www.example1.com[/B]/';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
    src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>

Code (markup):

<style type="text/css">
  #goog-wm { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match { }
  #goog-wm h3.closest-match a { }
  #goog-wm h3.other-things { }
  #goog-wm ul li { }
  #goog-wm li.search-goog { display: block; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var GOOG_FIXURL_LANG = 'en';
  var GOOG_FIXURL_SITE = '[B]http://www.example2.com[/B]/';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" 
    src="http://linkhelp.clients.google.com/tbproxy/lh/wm/fixurl.js"></script>

Code (markup):

Also if a redirect was put in place, it may not pass proper 404 file not found, to the bots.. and may affect rankings.. So unfortunately, I will have to wait till godaddy comes up with something.

Cheers
James