Comments on: Web Page Tip of the Day — Upgrade Your 404 Page http://inventblog.com/business-and-tech-tips/upgrade-your-404-page-with-google.html Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Kevin S. Brady http://inventblog.com/business-and-tech-tips/upgrade-your-404-page-with-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-4101 Kevin S. Brady Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:37:41 +0000 http://inventblog.com/?p=1788#comment-4101 Good advice, and far too many websites don't take advantage of a more user-friendly 404. If you own a brick-and-mortar company, you don't want prospective customers to not be able to find the front door, right? Why should your website be any different? Even a static HTML 404 page with a prominent link pointing to the homepage is better than leaving things to your host's generic error page. Or you can be real creative, like this guy did: http://rathergood.com/404 Good advice, and far too many websites don’t take advantage of a more user-friendly 404. If you own a brick-and-mortar company, you don’t want prospective customers to not be able to find the front door, right? Why should your website be any different?

Even a static HTML 404 page with a prominent link pointing to the homepage is better than leaving things to your host’s generic error page.

Or you can be real creative, like this guy did:
http://rathergood.com/404

]]> By: nipper (Stephen M. Nipper) http://inventblog.com/business-and-tech-tips/upgrade-your-404-page-with-google.html/comment-page-1#comment-5790 nipper (Stephen M. Nipper) Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:50:14 +0000 http://inventblog.com/?p=1788#comment-5790 New post on my blog -- How to Upgrade Your Website's/Blog's 404 Page and help your users find what they were looking for. http://is.gd/dZI4 New post on my blog — How to Upgrade Your Website’s/Blog’s 404 Page and help your users find what they were looking for. http://is.gd/dZI4

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