404 pages are they worth monetizing?

by Jeremy Gatica

Posted: 16 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

and how do you recommend setting them up?

Jeremy

#404 #monetizing #pages #worth

woah316 16 years ago

how much money can you really make off them? unless you have craigslist / myspace type traffic?

just my thoughts..
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- sparrow 16 years ago
  
  I have often thought of doing this when I find time to do it on my list of things to do.
  
  I think you can modify the 404 page in your cpanel
  
  Its suppose to be a standard html page that gets called
  
  Put anything up and test it out
  
  a offer, a squeeze page etc...
  
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  JasonKing 16 years ago
  
  If folks like Hostgator are sticking their offers up on them, what does that tell you?
  
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  eljay003 16 years ago
  
  If you want to modify your 404 page, just login to your cpanel. Look for the error pages icon. click on that. Usually located on the 3rd row, 1st column. Look for the 404 (wrong page). You can now modify that page. Save it and check your new 404 wrong page
  
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  Steven Fullman 16 years ago
  
  Jeremy,
  
  Check your PM
  
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- tj 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jusumax
  
  how much money can you really make off them? unless you have craigslist / myspace type traffic?
  
  just my thoughts..
  
  what does a 404 page has to do with cl / ms traffic????
  
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  Quentin 16 years ago
  
  In Wordpress just go to your theme editor and change the 404 page. For static sites go to cpanel. They are listed in there under error pages.
  
  Weather it brings in traffic or not you should be getting the interest instead of your host don't you think.
  
  Here are some unique ways or dealing with 404's
  
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  talewins 16 years ago
  
  Here's the best and the easiest way to make your error page work for you 9 times out of 10.
  
  #1, doll up your page ANY way you want it to look in your favorite page maker. Save it as 404.shtml and upload it to the same level your front page (index or default) is on.
  
  http://www.talewins.com/404.shtml will show you how I have set this up to look
  
  One thing I do want to caution you a caution on is (if you have more than one level (http://www.talewins.com/pain/master/piledon.htm) that your links must be complete, as if you were directing traffic completely off your site. No in site references -- like ( a href:"../pain/master.htm") Links should be (a href:"http://www.talewins.com/images/seldom/master.htm"
  
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  Scott Ames 16 years ago
  
  I have mine set to simply redirect to my main page if they hit a page that doesn't exist.
  
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  timesaver22 16 years ago
  
  I Have them set up to as a simple google adsense search page.jus t the search box in the middle.
  
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  Eric Lorence 16 years ago
  
  Here is also an idea for a custom 404 page with search function:
  
  Custom Search | Thought Search Articles
  
  The idea is to encourage those visitor to stay.
  
  Most likely they are searching for something specific, and will be turned off by an immediate page full of ads.
  
  Give them something useful at first, then ease them into your site and offers.
  
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  Frank Bruno 16 years ago
  
  You can just modify a 404 page and simply link back to any one of your pages from your Cpanel.
  
  Here's a different approach that you can use to for a 404 page;
  
  http://custom-niche-videos.com/what-...l-is-this.html
  
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Zachary R. Skinner

16 years ago

Sure, 404 error pages are worth monetizing but only if you have a tremendous amount of traffic. If you're only getting a couple dozen hits a day, customizing your 404 pages is probably not worth the time.

Then again, customization only takes minutes to do so if you have the time to spare, go for it.