404 Pages

404 Pages Not Found

What are those error pages and how can you capitalize upon them?

These error messages are used when a specific

operation has failed such as:

An undetectable error

An incomplete operation

Load letter problems

Memory problems

Availability of programs

Low disks space

Files not found

General protection fault errors

Invalid page fault errors

Bad command or file names

Website owners shiver to think that their visitors may be redirected

to these but you can capitalize upon them and bring them back to

your homepage.

Here are some tips to do just that.

Add some text on the 404 page in which you apologize for the

inconvience that your visitor is experiencing. Use keywords but no

more then three times.

Have a good title page for the 404 page.

Use a good graphics page that is similar to your own website.

Use standard navigation.

Have the navigation easy to use for the visitor to access to the redirect.

Going about the process:

Some hosting makesthis process easy to accomplish. Go Daddy is one

of them in which this can be achieved in as little as five minutes.

For others this may need to be done manually. For those that need to do

this method, will need to follow these steps:

To create your 404 error document use your HTML editor. Upload the

document to the root directory on your server.

Include the following in your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yourdomain.com/404.html

The .htaccess file is a regular text file that contains scripts that allows

one to create custom 404 error documents.

You do need to first name the file as htaccess.txt in your local hard drive.

After you have uploaded it onto your server, rename the file to .htaccess

Make the most of 404 pages and keep you visitors directed on your website.

Author:

Sandi Baker

http://letusgetitdone.info/