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How To Redirect 404 Error Pages To HomePage In Blogger – 404 Error?
Oops Page Not Found, 404 Error. The page you are
looking for is Unavailable, the requested URL was not found on this server –
When browsing the web you might see such similar messages in websites. What
will you do when you see a 404 error page in a website? Most likely you hit the
back button or by rarely you will step ahead to the websites homepage. This is
the same case for you when visitors land on non-existing URLs in your Blogger
blog. Here we will see how to redirect 404 error pages to home page in
Blogger.
Before getting in to this topic we will see what 404 error pages are, how they occur and how to deal with those pages.
404 Error Pages – What Is It - Why Do They Occur?
Your Blogger blog returns a 404 response code when the
actual URL does not exist. That means the server could not find the requested
URL (Broken Links Or Dead Links). Learn more about HTTP Status Codes.
404 error pages is an issue found on all websites and occur
commonly due to such instances.
----- When someone link backs to non-existing URL.
----- When you Rename A Post Or Page URL.
----- When you delete a blog post or page.
----- When moving pages or when redesigning your blog.
How To Deal With 404 Error Pages In Blogger?
In your webmaster tools account there is a section called
crawls. In there you can find all your 404 error pages. Once those URLs has
been fetched by crawlers and but now they couldn’t find what they are looking
for. The reason is that you might have changed you Blog Post URL or
deleted your blog post.
How to deal all those 404 error URLs in webmaster tools? You
can fix all those error URLs by Redirecting Them Permanently To Existing Pages (301 Permanent Redirection). By using Blogger Custom Redirects you
can redirect 404 error URLs to existing pages.
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The error URLs that you see in your webmaster account are
discovered by Google bots. Anyhow 404 error pages still show up in your blog.
That maybe because you linked to one of your blog post with misspelled URL or
someone might linked to non-existing URL in your blog.
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404 error pages are not bad for SEO and so we
suggest you to leave the 404 error pages as it is. The only thing is that it
gives a bad user experience and Blogger by default displays a 404 error page
with the following message.
"Sorry. The page you are looking for in this blog does not
exist."
Handling 404 Error Pages In Blogger
The default 404 error page /message in Blogger is somewhat
not interesting. So you can create your own custom 404 error page or you can
redirect 404 error pages to your blog home page. Personally we don’t prefer
redirecting 404 pages to home page rather you can customize your 404 page with
useful links in it.
In Blogger there in an option called “custom page not found”
in search preferences. By using HTML you can create your own custom 404 error pages
and that is a decent way to handle 404 error pages.
You can show off like!
Oops! 404. This page does not exist (moved or renamed).
----- You can go back to our home page using this link.
----- You can browse our categories to find related articles.
--- Category 1
--- Category 2
--- Category 3
--- Category 4
----- Try using our search box to locate the correct page.--- Category 2
--- Category 3
--- Category 4
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How To Redirect 404 Error Pages To HomePage In Blogger?
You can redirect your blog visitors to homepage, but don’t
make them go blind. So instead of redirecting them directly to your homepage,
you can mention them about the actual issue and automatically redirect within
few seconds.
Here is the code, just copy it and paste it in your custom
page not found field.
Go to:
settings >> search preferences >> custom page
not found
<h1>Oops 404!</h1>
<br><b>The page you are looking for may have
been renamed or does not exist in this server.</b>
<br><br><b>You will be redirected to
homepage shortly.</b>
<script>
blogger_redirect = setTimeout(function() {
location.pathname= "/" }, 7000);
From now on visitors who land on your blogs 404 error page
will be notified about the 404 error and will be redirected shortly. In the
above code where 7000 is the redirection time in milliseconds which you can
change it as per your wish.
I can hope this article helped you on how to redirect 404 error
pages to home page in Blogger. Also you learned some possible solutions to
handle 404 error pages in Blogger. Please share this article and feel free to
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