Creating User Friendly 404 Pages

It’s inevitable. At some point some of your users will see a 404 error page when the page they tried to view no longer exists.

While a 404 is annoying, Not ideal and should be avoided, There are steps you can take to make it as painless for your users as possible.

Written by stOx on March 22nd, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Creating Well-Built Sites

Search engines have moved beyond simply calculating keyword density and link relevance. More and more, the major search engines are mastering the ability to identify natural human language and evaluate a web page based on natural human language. By learning to identify natural human language, search engines are able to greatly reduce the amount of search engine spam. As search engines learn to better identify the natural language structure of websites, sites that are well formed will have a natural advantage — good search engine rankings will always depend on more than just the structure and content of a website, the content of a website will always be the heart of a page’s rankings.

Written by Former Marine on February 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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