- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:03:59 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 6:33a -0700 07/09/99, Ray Benjamin wrote: >Wouldn't it be nice if there was a good way for search engines to prune >entries that returned 404 errors without having to depend >on spiders? Wouldn't it be nice if webmasters took steps to prevent their sites from generating 404s in the first place? When I change a path on my site, I put a "Page Moved" link in its place for several months, and then I use my server's "ErrorDocument" to send a page which lists old and new URLs. Examples: http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/ds.html http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/xxxxx.html -Walter
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