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Re: An easy way to make your 404 pages useful!

developdaly

John, FYI, your Google search input box doesn't have a border around
it and just looks like text on the page.

On Aug 19, 1:31 pm, JLH wrote:

> 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