Correct Error Page Layout

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Correct Error Page Layout

security56

3:34 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi,
I was wondering how to make the crorrect error page layout such as 404 error or 500 since I notice google keeps my old pages even tho they do not exist no more. right now I use a typical page layout as my error pages. I mean i didn't include any special code to show it's an error page all the page says is "page no found please check the other areas of the site" then I enter that layout in the Error pages Editor of my cpanel.
Thanks

Kufu

5:07 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Take a look at Apple's 404 page; that is a good example that is also going to be useful for visitors.

paulanthony

5:08 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have been toying with linking one page to all the pages throwing 404s in Google. Just so the spider collects them and cleans out the index. Would this help things?

security56

5:12 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

paulanthony you mean it will take all the non existing page out, that be great :)

Ley me checks apples error page

g1smd

5:32 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Use WebBug to check that your server really does return a HTTP status code of "404" in the HTTP header for any page URL that does not really exist.

Additionally add a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag in the <head> section of the HTML error page so that the error page cannot be indexed under its true URL.

security56

5:59 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

I check and I get that 404 error how long it takes google to take them page out its being almost a year since they being gone from my site :)

Thanks for the tag tip I going to put it right now

Thanks

Kufu

6:18 pm on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Additionally add a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag in the <head> section of the HTML error page so that the error page cannot be indexed under its true URL.

Very important / good advice.