404 error redirect

[chensp18]

I redirect 404 error to my homepage using following codes in .htaccess:

ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

Is it a 301 redirect? Is it good for major search engine? Does anybody have a better solution to redirect 404 errors to homepage and have no impact with SE ranks?

Thank you!

[JAB Creations]

No, if you set your frontpage as your 404 file, it is still your 404 file. The search engines will see the 404 http code (even though you served them your frontpage).

A 301 looks like this (in your .htaccess)...

Redirect permanent /lostfile.html [example.com...]

Repeat for each file you want to setup a 301 for. Setting up 301s are MUCH better then 404s THOUGH I'm not sure search engines add the redirected to their "to crawl" list.