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Filed Under (Wordpress) by Mani Karthik on 01-08-2007


What happens when you have changed or moved pages and you still get traffic from Google for those pages? Users end up in 404 Error pages - which doesn’t look attractive at all. It could prove fatal to you. The user may simply get a bad impression about you and may quit visiting your domain for ever.

Here’s how you can get over it.

Create a custom 404 Error page. Yes, you knew it already - so what’s the deal?

Instead of creating a 404 error page with a creative tag line, why not suggest the visitor an alternate page or a list of related posts based on the search query he made?

Here is a plugin from Wasabi that let’s you show related posts based on the search query by the visitor on your 404 pages.

Talk about - increasing page views on the blog. :)

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Comments

Sunil Parmar on 1 August, 2007 at 9:50 am #

Hi there,
I’ve manually customized my 404 page but this sounds useful too.
:smile:


Svetoslav on 11 August, 2007 at 12:52 pm #

Hi,

Yeah, it is good idea.
Thanks
Svetoslav


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