ERROR 404 Page Not Found

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We all many time come across ERROR 404 Page Not Found, Some of this finds Unusual where as some just ignores it and move away. Same thing happens to me when I was searching on Google and apparently I came across ERROR 404.Today am going to get you people little bit more into this ERROR 404 stuff.

When you get Page Not Found ERROR

• You have mistyped Domain name i.e www.domainname.com or url
• You are searching on google or yahoo for your specific keyword or key phrase and returned result of search may have link to invalid or non existing website or web page or Expired Domain
• Due to Broken Link
• Web hosting server may be down or site is under Maintenance
• Change in DNS server setting for a website

A reason of feeling unusual to some user is because they never understand why they got Error 404, or the user is not a Techno geek to understand meaning of Error 404.such people usually give little importance to error and simply close their Web Browser but for those who are techno geek may find this error as disturbing or sadness to them. Sadness may be because he was searching and got only one result with exact matching search phrase and that too got end up with error 400.

In some cases, regular surfer save their search result i.e links into their doc files or txt file for future reference and when they actually refer to search result, copy pasts saved link to web browser and …Damn Error 404 Page Not Found. This might seems funny.

Here is some suggestions for work around

• Check whether you have types correct URL and site name
• Try to get Cache version of that Page

For webmasters and site admin people getting error 404 are potential visitors and they should not take this lightly as this may be probable loss for them, As potential visitor may go away without reading much or going to home page to find out more. Here are some tips for those webmasters.

• Keep looking for all broken links and correct it as soon as you find any
• Keep checking backlink to your site and are those links are working or not
• Customize your Error 404 page to suite to your site theme
• You may try to give related site links or your own homepage links on error 404 page
• You may keep contact to admin link on ERROR 404 page, so as user can report any broken link or give more details what they was doing

Webmasters should always give attentions to ERROR 404 page as you cannot afford to lose any potential visitors.

Another part for webmasters is that if you find suspicious number of Error 404 in your web logs, then you must analyze your log carefully as it may be some kind of Web Attack.

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