404 Page Recommendations

There is never a good 404.

The whole idea of a 404 ever being created is ridiculous, wasting traffic and wasting any SEO potential.

Well, I guess is kind of normal to have some broken links on a site. Then, for a better optimisation these will need to be fixed, but if a user lands on a 404 page what kind of element do you recomend to have on that page? search box? sitemap?

Thanks
T

Do a search on Google for "great 404 pages" and you will find tons of articles that show them to you.

Usually 404 error will occur when your page got deleted and moved your page content from one URL to another URL. If your move the website from one domain to another domain, then it could possible to create bulk 404 errors on your website. So 404 error is the very critical issue while switching domain. It will kill your entire monthly traffic. So you have to check the crawl error section in webmaster regularly to find the list of 404 errors.

If your web page got deleted or moved the page content from one URL to another URL, 404 error will occur. Usually 404 errors will happen when changing website from one domain to another domain. 404 errors are very critical issue while switching the domain. So you have to check the crawl error section in webmaster tool to check the 404 errors.

If in your site any 404 found its a very negative impact as per SEO sites.

404 has nothing to do with seo unless you go around making a bunch of links that don't exist using typos or something.

But then, it really has nothing to with seo on that front either, as your seo would be unaffected. Your time would be wasted, but that's about it.

However, everyone gets 404 pages. Yup, everyone on every site, 24/7.....you can't avoid them. You can never get rid of them. Never. Why? Because computers are run by humans, and humans make errors.

The best practice is to have what is called a soft landing.

Instead of getting the visitor to just click out when getting a blank page, you give them a custom one.

It politely explains that for many reasons, the page they are trying to get to does not exist or perhaps has been changed. Then you give them links to your home page, or a menu of other options.

So many people think that 404 cans be avoided and that it affects seo. If you make a typos on your site, shame on you. If you delete a page that is indexed and gets traffic, without doing other things, shame on you.

Paul

Some of the members here has the point because every person commits typo errors so that's why 404 error message occurred. While on some websites that has deleted pages when the user visits them it will show the 404 error message.