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How to Redirect 404 Not Found Page Using .htaccess

Recently, I moving one of my website from WordPress CMS to normal static html. I found out that there are too many 404 not found errors.

One of the solutions is to redirect it to more meaningful page, especially the Homepage. Although some people may argue, the usefulness of the redirects. However, I prefer to do so on some of my websites.

To do this I need to edit “.htaccess” which located at the root folder of the particular website. If you are unable to see the file, make sure you allow to view hidden files since “.htaccess” is a hidden file. If it still not there, then create it.

The following procedure, guides on how to redirect.

If you are using cPanel, log into front-end and click on “File Manager” application. Make sure you enable the hidden file viewers.
Go to the root folder of the website & edit or create “.htaccess” file.
Add the following code & replace YOURURL with the URL where you want the error 404 page redirected to.
Click save & you are done.

ErrorDocument 404 http://YOURURL

Google Page Rank Update, November 2011

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Google Page Rank

On the 7th-8th November, 2011, Google was updating the Page Ranks. In my blog network, most of my websites going up in page rank. This is indeed a good news, although most of them up by only one point.

The page rank update came after Google update their Caffaine search algoritham which impacts 35% of the search results. Anyway, both are not related.

For those who are new to page rank, it is a metric between 0-10. 10 is the best while 0 is the lowest. The rank depends on many factors, mostly on-site SEO and backlinks to your website.