Comments on: Page Not Found - Why The 404 Page Can Be Your Best Friend

By: search_junkie

search_junkie — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:19:56 +0000

Webologist, you pose a good question, but I think that you have already answered that for your self. Visitors may get confused if you redirect to the homepage. You would be surprised at the ingnorance of most of the people online.

And plus, making really cool and creative 404 error pages is more fun!

By: Webologist

Webologist — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:05:38 +0000

Rather than have a custom 404 page I just direct 404 errors to the index page. I am not sure if this is a good thing though. Good for SEO maybe, but for thes user I am not so sure about it. If someone is looking for a specific page, and they do not get a 404 page, then they may assume that they are on the correct page, and be put of by the fact it is possibly irrelevant. So, which is best, cust 404 or redirecting 404 to index? The code in the config file to redirect to index is simply: ErrorDocument 404 /

By: search_junkie

search_junkie — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:38:36 +0000

Thank you so much for my first comment, you rock Steve!

By: steve peron

steve peron — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:37:35 +0000

Fury … 404 pages rock.

It is amazing the amount of backlinks website owners missout on due to typos in the backlinks and a missing custom 404 page.