Is it possible to make the result page look like a page from my Google
Custom search that I use on my site (boreal.net). The change to my
custom error page is inconsistent with the rest of my search results.
Please let me know if this is possible and how.
Hi John,
Thank you again - you are full of great information! I just redid the
page as a static aspx page so there is only one form and it seems to
be working in IE7 and Firefox. Thank you for everything!!
> It looks like you have a "form" element across your complete page.
> This is most likely confusing IE as our JavaScript also uses a "form"
> to let the user search (and nested forms are by definition not
> allowed, meaning browsers can interpret it differently). If possible,
> I would suggest removing the "form" on your page as it doesn't seem to
> be required there - or moving the JavaScript so that it is outside of
> your form. I know this is sometimes complicated on ASP.NET (I fought
> with it myself for many years :-)), but it should be possible
> somehow.
> Let me know how it goes. I think the team is looking at a solution for
> these kinds of situations as well, but who knows, perhaps you're
> faster than we are :-).
> 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 :-).
> > 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 :-).
That's pretty cool! My thing though is getting the pages which Google
has indexed removed from the search results. I tried to have them
deleted using the tool but I noticed that even though it says the
pages got removed I'm still getting errors for at least some. I guess
if that doesn't work I can come up with something although I think I'd
prefer to publish something on my own to fill the spot so it doesn't
show up as an error.
Hi Ken
You generally don't have to manually remove URLs from our index if
they don't exist anymore. If we notice that they don't exist, we'll
automatically removed them from our index over time -- and for the
time that they remain in our index, we may try to re-crawl them but us
finding an error for those URLs will generally not negatively affect
your site's crawling, indexing and ranking with Google.
> Hi Ken
> You generally don't have to manually remove URLs from our index if
> they don't exist anymore. If we notice that they don't exist, we'll
> automatically removed them from our index over time -- and for the
> time that they remain in our index, we may try to re-crawl them but us
> finding an error for those URLs will generally not negatively affect
> your site's crawling, indexing and ranking with Google.
That's right.
The only 404's that affect yrou site negatively are those for pages
which SHOULD exist, you know they EXIST and yet return 404's.
This can also easily happen if you navigation is poorly designed and
your internal links are in fact broken when seen by a robot.
For instance if you have links like <a href="../somepage.html">Some
page</a>, the browser will know what ../ means but a robot will not
and then that is instantly a broken link, thereby depriving that page
of the benefit of a spider visit.
And if all the links to that page are expresed that way, then that
page does not exist for Googlebot.
> > Hi Ken
> > You generally don't have to manually remove URLs from our index if
> > they don't exist anymore. If we notice that they don't exist, we'll
> > automatically removed them from our index over time -- and for the
> > time that they remain in our index, we may try to re-crawl them but us
> > finding an error for those URLs will generally not negatively affect
> > your site's crawling, indexing and ranking with Google.
Don't put urls in a sitemap which don't exist or that get redirected.
They'll be ignored (but you get the warnging anyway). It's just
useless and sloppy.
> > Hi Ken
> > You generally don't have to manually remove URLs from our index if
> > they don't exist anymore. If we notice that they don't exist, we'll
> > automatically removed them from our index over time -- and for the
> > time that they remain in our index, we may try to re-crawl them but us
> > finding an error for those URLs will generally not negatively affect
> > your site's crawling, indexing and ranking with Google.
It works fine unless or until you use a PC which has downloaded and
installed AVG (anti virus software) which detects the redirection in
the Script and then redirects your browser to a yahoo search bar !!
To be fair you can disable this feature in the AVG toolbar although
many users would probably not change the default features. therefore
is there anything you can add to the script to avoid the AVG
redirection.
> It works fine unless or until you use a PC which has downloaded and
> installed AVG (anti virus software) which detects the redirection in
> the Script and then redirects your browser to a yahoo search bar !!
> To be fair you can disable this feature in the AVG toolbar although
> many users would probably not change the default features. therefore
> is there anything you can add to the script to avoid the AVG
> redirection.
> I took it off already. Looked ugly cuzz the Google Search button,
> well, wasn't a button. Like I said, CSS black magic voodoo stuff, way
> beyond my tolerance for tedious details.
> On Aug 20, 11:14 am, cristina wrote:
> > Hi JLH,
> > I cannot find the source code for the widget
> > on a 404 URL from your site.
> > Are you sure you put the code in the
> > content generated for a 404 error?
> > Cristina.
> > On Aug 20, 4:22 pm, JLH wrote:
> > > I couldn't get the search button to show up, it has something to do
> > > with CSS I just know it, and that stuff borders on black magic in my
> > > book so I took it off, perhaps to revisit it when all other things on
> > > my to do list are accomplished.
> > > On Aug 20, 10:04 am, cristina wrote:
> > > > Sorry, me again again.
> > > > It gives hint URLs for some incorrect URLs,
> > > > but not for all.
> > > > It is quite fun to try and find incorrect URLs for which
> > > > the widget gives good suggestions.
I've created a customer 404 page with google widget. If you type an
incorrect URL, it shows the error page. But it doesn't search my site
or suggest the URLs. Can anyone help? The website is www.barcode-uk.com
404 widget is a brilliant idea. Though before implementing I have a
couple of questions.
1. Does the widget check if the suggested URL is a valid (HTTP status
being 200) URL?
2. What if I do not want to show the Search box? Is there an option?
Ideally I would like to have only the suggested URL and use our own
site search box rather than taking the user to the Google website.
No, the widget does not check the HTTP result code, but I would
strongly discourage using any other result code than 404 on a page-not-
found error page :).
> 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 :-).
> No, the widget does not check the HTTP result code, but I would
> strongly discourage using any other result code than 404 on a page-not-
> found error page :).
The 404 widget is a good idea, however there is one problem with it.
The widget automatically uses UTF-8 encoding, so it doesn't work too
well on pages using Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding. On such pages,
International characters will look very weird.
Is there any way to tell the widget to display the text using
ISO-8859-1 encoding instead, or are there any plans to add such a
feature? As my entire site uses Latin1 encoding, I really don't want
to use another encoding just for the 404 pages...
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