How to Eliminate 404 Page’s

Define 404: A 404 error means “not found”. This is usually the page you get when you make a mistake spelling page name in a site, or if the page is deleted or moved. The problem is that the standard 404 page is ugly and unhelpful.

If your website has too many 404 Errors floating around in the search engines a few things may happen:

Your website popularity may be harm.
Your website rankings are affected.
Your website may be penalized
Your website may be banned from the index

Eliminate 404 Page’s from Google’s index:

Set Up In Google Webmaster Tools
Finding your 404-error pages
Killing your 404-error pages

Recommended Solution: You can redirect [404 error pages/ not found pages] using 301 redirect to home page. In this case visitors and Google see your home page instead of error page. Its a way and its search engine and Google friendly too.



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I am using Google Search appliance only.The problem is GSA will crawl the non existing urls and sends the 404 as response to the search results.Now what i want is,this 404 response in the search results should be screened out from the search results page.So how can i screenout the nonexisting cms(content management systems) pages from the search results page using Google Search Appliance.
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Hi

First you have to create custom 404 page with "404" name for your site and after that you update your htaccess file with below code:
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php