Posted by Tips on 01/02/07 17:50

"Adrienne Boswell" <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> AFAIK, that is something that is done server side. You might want to
> Google for Custom 404 Page. It also depends on what the server in
> question
> is running.

I just checked the page. Instead of sending a 404 Not Found header, it
sends a 302 redirect to /index.html when a page isn't found.

This is very bad for search engines. When a page is not found, the server
should send a 404 Not Found header, not a redirect.

The images are sending 403 headers.

The site has serious problems.

Don't do that kind of redirect on your site or you risk destroying your
search engine rankings. I've seen it happen a couple of times.

If you don't like the regular 404 Not Found page, you can make a custom one
that has menus and images on it.


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