Comments on: Free links to your site http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jobs http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-411886 Jobs Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:32:28 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-411886 A good method I use on some of my sites is to redirect my 404 pages to the homepage. ;) Works great! A good method I use on some of my sites is to redirect my 404 pages to the homepage. ;)
Works great!

]]> By: Rita http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-401348 Rita Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:06:01 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-401348 A little late to the party here, but I just went and check and we have over 900 page not found errors on one of the sites. Yikes. Turns out a fix needed to be done on our programming end, something had gotten messed up, pulling individual home listings went bonkers. Thank goodness I didn't have to start fixing 900+ errors. A little late to the party here, but I just went and check and we have over 900 page not found errors on one of the sites. Yikes. Turns out a fix needed to be done on our programming end, something had gotten messed up, pulling individual home listings went bonkers. Thank goodness I didn’t have to start fixing 900+ errors.

]]> By: Garry http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-398653 Garry Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:01:52 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-398653 A friend once told me that whenever he sees the 404 thing he gets the impression that the site is not 'good enough' to visit otherwise it would not be having this problem! This might be the view of a person who is not from the field I am in.But he did tell me one thing which is worth considering.A serious look into this would help keep the google presence intact all times. A friend once told me that whenever he sees the 404 thing he gets the impression that the site is not ‘good enough’ to visit otherwise it would not be having this problem! This might be the view of a person who is not from the field I am in.But he did tell me one thing which is worth considering.A serious look into this would help keep the google presence intact all times.

]]> By: ravi http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-398099 ravi Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:54:30 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-398099 An excellent tool – does make life easier. However, does it catch ALL 404 link errors? Its just that Google isnt great at revealing all backlinks An excellent tool – does make life easier. However, does it catch ALL 404 link errors? Its just that Google isnt great at revealing all backlinks

]]> By: Brent http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-392812 Brent Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:38:17 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-392812 you could change your 404 so that it goes to your home page like mine does. http://www.deerdays.com/adf;kajds;fjakds;jga; go to that and my it will go to default.aspx IIS makes it easy to configure. you can be tricky like what I do for <a href="http://www.probattlemma.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.probattlemma.com/</a>. It's a 404 page that has a javascript so that i can send html links to it like this <a href="http://www.probattlemma.com/NewsArtical172.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.probattlemma.com/NewsArtical172.html</a> that will redirect to the appriate news.aspx? page query displaying the article. You might ask why would you want to do that. Becaues XML Feeds do not allow the "&" chr as part of a link. So if you want your link to be in a feed it can't be a link with a query following it. you could change your 404 so that it goes to your home page like mine does.
http://www.deerdays.com/adf;kajds;fjakds;jga;
go to that and my it will go to default.aspx

IIS makes it easy to configure.

you can be tricky like what I do for http://www.probattlemma.com/. It’s a 404 page that has a javascript so that i can send html links to it like this
http://www.probattlemma.com/NewsArtical172.html that will redirect to the appriate news.aspx? page query displaying the article.

You might ask why would you want to do that. Becaues XML Feeds do not allow the “&” chr as part of a link. So if you want your link to be in a feed it can’t be a link with a query following it.

]]> By: soccer http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-391285 soccer Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:23:09 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-391285 nice idea , I will check my log for 404 nice idea , I will check my log for 404

]]> By: Alessandra M http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-385339 Alessandra M Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:35:38 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-385339 Hey Matt, Thanks for the suggesting me!! It's really helpful for me. I used this code 404 for home page like http://www.rvsjunction.com this is my site. If some one put like this http://www.rvsjunction.com/asdasdasdasd URL and hit enter then automatically redirect at my home page. It's superb!!! Thanks really thanks!!!! Keep Going!!!! Hey Matt, Thanks for the suggesting me!! It’s really helpful for me.
I used this code 404 for home page like
http://www.rvsjunction.com this is my site. If some one put like this http://www.rvsjunction.com/asdasdasdasd URL and hit enter then automatically redirect at my home page. It’s superb!!!
Thanks really thanks!!!!
Keep Going!!!!

]]> By: rent guy http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-373882 rent guy Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:46:12 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-373882 Awesome past Matt, it's one of those things that you don't realize even though it's right under your nose. I will be sure to check for the 404 errors from now on. Awesome past Matt, it’s one of those things that you don’t realize even though it’s right under your nose. I will be sure to check for the 404 errors from now on.

]]> By: Oscar http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-341439 Oscar Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:13:33 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-341439 Great write-up! There is so-much information available now that it's hard to keep up. I satrted using the webmaster's tool and found a few problems and fixed them. Thanks again Great write-up! There is so-much information available now that it’s hard to keep up. I satrted using the webmaster’s tool and found a few problems and fixed them. Thanks again

]]> By: Christopher Ross http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/#comment-331098 Christopher Ross Thu, 07 May 2009 11:02:00 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/?p=1211#comment-331098 Hi Matt, thanks for the overview! btw, your graphics in this piece are running under your sidebar. If you add max-width: 740px to your img style sheet it'll clean it up. Hi Matt, thanks for the overview! btw, your graphics in this piece are running under your sidebar. If you add max-width: 740px to your img style sheet it’ll clean it up.

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