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From: JLH
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Aug 20 2008 4:31 am
Subject: Re: An easy way to make your 404 pages useful!
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I applaud the efforts, like most webmaster tools it's going to be
great when functioning.  I'll reserve my excitement and praise after
I've observed it for a while.

Though I must say I'm not getting warm fuzzy feelings with a caveat
like this, "This feature is currently experimental -- we might not
provide corrections and suggestions for your site but we'll be working
to improve the coverage."  To me this sounds like another adventure in
"here be dragons" support not unlike sitelinks where this group in
inundated with hourly requests for "why doesn't my 404 work, my site
is w3 compliant and I use the work "cheese" on the homepage 87.3433
times?", "how can I get Google to make my 404 work like
microsoft.com?"

I've uploaded it, though it's tough to see it working or not as my
blog already forwards a user to close matches, for example

http://www.jlh-design.com/conta

will forward you to:

http://www.jlh-design.com/contact/

http://oyoy.eu/page/headers/?full=1&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jlh-design.c...

However if you pick something really whacky:
http://www.jlh-design.com/monkeys/

It does give you a link to a Google search, no suggestions yet on the
page itself.

I don't know why but when I copy the code from GWT and paste, it
pastes it twice, maybe just me and my browser.

On Aug 19, 12:55 pm, JohnMu wrote:

> Hi everyone!

> The team just launched another neat widget in Webmaster Tools --
> Enhanced 404 pages. Find all about it in the blog post athttp://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your-404-page...

> This is similar to what the Toolbar does in some situations (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/fyi-on-google-tool...
> ) and I'm excited to see it up & ready for use on your pages. Just
> copy & paste the code and you're done!

> Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
> links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
> I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).

> John


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