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  1. 10 Website Quality Indicators That Can Sink Your SEO Battleship

    Generally, these can be fixed easily – in the case of a 404 error with a 301 permanent redirect or a server check for what is causing the 500 errors. Especially check for “404 page not found” issues or “500 server issues”.

  2. Dear CMS: Don't Hinder My Search Results

    Some CMS tools will handle custom 404 error pages by responding with a server code 200 success. This is problematic to the way search engines manage pages and server codes. Another key point is to check that your CMS allows you to create...

  3. Common Problems with 404 Error Pages

    When a nonexistent page is requested from the server, the server should respond with a special "HTTP Status" header value of "404 Not Found," which may also be followed by custom error-page body content.

  4. When's an Outage More than Just an Outage?

    During times of either configuration problems or simply an outage, a search engine may see one of the following: DNS is unavailable, Network is not available, 500s in a large volume, and if a server is setup incorrectly, it could see redirects to...

  5. Microsoft Live Search Solves 404 Error Problem

    The Toolkit is a customizable ASP.net application that replaces the default error page on your IIS server. To solve that problem, Microsoft Live Search will now enable Web site owners to create error pages that recommend help even if the exact URL...

  6. Conducting a Redirect Audit on Your Web Site - Part 2

    Error at upstream server A 404 error isn't a redirect, but this will tell you where to set up redirects to real pages on your site to take care of these errors. This shows you where traffic is coming from when they're being given a 404 error.

  7. New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains

    There are a number of nice ideas here, which touch on why dead links and web decay aren't good for search engines, how most dead links can be identified regardless of whether a server returns a 404 error message or not, and how some exceptions...