Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).
> Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
> links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
> I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).
In WordPress, you can just go to Design - Theme Editor - 404 Template
(404.php) and copy & paste the code from your Webmaster Tools account
there. Simple as pie!
I applaud the efforts, like most webmaster tools it's going to be
great when functioning. I'll reserve my excitement and praise after
I've observed it for a while.
Though I must say I'm not getting warm fuzzy feelings with a caveat
like this, "This feature is currently experimental -- we might not
provide corrections and suggestions for your site but we'll be working
to improve the coverage." To me this sounds like another adventure in
"here be dragons" support not unlike sitelinks where this group in
inundated with hourly requests for "why doesn't my 404 work, my site
is w3 compliant and I use the work "cheese" on the homepage 87.3433
times?", "how can I get Google to make my 404 work like
microsoft.com?"
I've uploaded it, though it's tough to see it working or not as my
blog already forwards a user to close matches, for example
> Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
> links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
> I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).
> In WordPress, you can just go to Design - Theme Editor - 404 Template
> (404.php) and copy & paste the code from your Webmaster Tools account
> there. Simple as pie!
> In WordPress, you can just go to Design - Theme Editor - 404 Template
> (404.php) and copy & paste the code from your Webmaster Tools account
> there. Simple as pie!
> I applaud the efforts, like most webmaster tools it's going to be
> great when functioning. I'll reserve my excitement and praise after
> I've observed it for a while.
> Though I must say I'm not getting warm fuzzy feelings with a caveat
> like this, "This feature is currently experimental -- we might not
> provide corrections and suggestions for your site but we'll be working
> to improve the coverage." To me this sounds like another adventure in
> "here be dragons" support not unlike sitelinks where this group in
> inundated with hourly requests for "why doesn't my 404 work, my site
> is w3 compliant and I use the work "cheese" on the homepage 87.3433
> times?", "how can I get Google to make my 404 work like
> microsoft.com?"
> I've uploaded it, though it's tough to see it working or not as my
> blog already forwards a user to close matches, for example
> > Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
> > links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
> > I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).
> John, FYI, your Google search input box doesn't have a border around
> it and just looks like text on the page.
> On Aug 19, 1:31 pm, JLH wrote:
> > I applaud the efforts, like most webmaster tools it's going to be
> > great when functioning. I'll reserve my excitement and praise after
> > I've observed it for a while.
> > Though I must say I'm not getting warm fuzzy feelings with a caveat
> > like this, "This feature is currently experimental -- we might not
> > provide corrections and suggestions for your site but we'll be working
> > to improve the coverage." To me this sounds like another adventure in
> > "here be dragons" support not unlike sitelinks where this group in
> > inundated with hourly requests for "why doesn't my 404 work, my site
> > is w3 compliant and I use the work "cheese" on the homepage 87.3433
> > times?", "how can I get Google to make my 404 work like
> > microsoft.com?"
> > I've uploaded it, though it's tough to see it working or not as my
> > blog already forwards a user to close matches, for example
> > > Feel free to post your questions & comments here -- and of course
> > > links to 404 pages which you have created that use this widget! I hope
> > > I'm not the only one who likes finding pages that don't exist :-).
Hi developdaly
I tried it out on your site, but there's a problem with the 404 pages
-- they redirect to an error page, which makes the widget try to
suggest alternatives for the error page :-(
Hi JLH,
The problem is not that things will break completely, but rather that
in the worst case, we'll only be able to show a site-search box. As in
your case, the /monkeys URL is not something we could correct to
anything sensible (at least as far as I can tell :-)). A URL like
http://www.jlh-design.com/contactt/ however, would probably be
something we could suggest something better for.
Also, this is one situation where a HTML sitemap page actually makes
sense: provided we can find it, we'll link to it as well.
I see what you are saying with that page. Its because its a rewritten
URL and the underlying URL for product ID 853 does exist but the
product does not so the product page 301 redirects to our custom 404
page. So its not handled like a standard 404. (Will look into seeing
if this is possible though) http://www.memorycardzoo.co.uk/power+traveller should give a proper 404 page and it is a product we sell but nothing
is returned.
Also the script error I get, I get for all the 404 page examples
posted on here. I do have all errors turned on in IE7.0 though.
"Unknown runtime error" line 10. (If that helps any :S)
> Hi developdaly
> I tried it out on your site, but there's a problem with the 404 pages
> -- they redirect to an error page, which makes the widget try to
> suggest alternatives for the error page :-(
> Hi JLH,
> The problem is not that things will break completely, but rather that
> in the worst case, we'll only be able to show a site-search box. As in
> your case, the /monkeys URL is not something we could correct to
> anything sensible (at least as far as I can tell :-)). A URL likehttp://www.jlh-design.com/contactt/however, would probably be
> something we could suggest something better for.
> Also, this is one situation where a HTML sitemap page actually makes
> sense: provided we can find it, we'll link to it as well.
It's 2 scripts. One locally defined on your own page, at teh locaiotn
where you'd want it to show up, and another rigbht under it, that uses
a remote js script. Optionally some css styling you can add to your
own stylesheet or a style tag ion the ehad of the page.
I just installed it and tried a few bad URLs that were close to being
correct, and it worked very well. As noted in the Webmaster Tools,
the widget did not produce a link to my HTML sitemap, perhaps because
the filename is "sitemap.htm" instead of "sitemap.html". I hope that
the widget gets a bit smarter about sitemap filename extensions soon
(.htm, .php, .asp, etc.).
The Webmaster Tools page for installing this widget should also
include some advice to add a complimentary <noscript> section to your
Custom 404 page so that you can give users running with JavaScript
disabled some appropriate advice for finding their way to the
information they're after on your site.
Hi JMK,
Maybe give the URL of your site,
check if your site returns
HTTP status response 404 (Not Found)
for non-existent URLs.
Another thing is that some browser plug-ins
or firewalls redirect by default to their own
404 error pages when they get HTTP status response 404.
I just tried the Google 404 widget on my site,
if you want look with 'view source' at
http://www.asymptoticdesign.com/test404 at the two script elements towards the end of the page,
where I want the widget to appear.
The content of the widget is in a div #goog-wm
created by the external JavaScript code from Google
called by the code snippet, and
#goog-wm is styled via the <style> element
(I put the <style> element from the
widget snippet in the <head> element to be
valid (X)HTML )
> I just installed it and tried a few bad URLs that were close to being
> correct, and it worked very well. As noted in the Webmaster Tools,
> the widget did not produce a link to my HTML sitemap, perhaps because
> the filename is "sitemap.htm" instead of "sitemap.html". I hope that
> the widget gets a bit smarter about sitemap filename extensions soon
> (.htm, .php, .asp, etc.).
> The Webmaster Tools page for installing this widget should also
> include some advice to add a complimentary <noscript> section to your
> Custom 404 page so that you can give users running with JavaScript
> disabled some appropriate advice for finding their way to the
> information they're after on your site.
Sorry, me again again.
It gives hint URLs for some incorrect URLs,
but not for all.
It is quite fun to try and find incorrect URLs for which
the widget gives good suggestions.
webado wrote:
> The search doesn't work, as it reepats the same page with a query
> string attached which doesn't do any better than the first time
> through.
> On 20 ao t, 10:37, cristina wrote:
> > Sorry to repeat,
> > I tried it on my site
I couldn't get the search button to show up, it has something to do
with CSS I just know it, and that stuff borders on black magic in my
book so I took it off, perhaps to revisit it when all other things on
my to do list are accomplished.
> Sorry, me again again.
> It gives hint URLs for some incorrect URLs,
> but not for all.
> It is quite fun to try and find incorrect URLs for which
> the widget gives good suggestions.
> Cristina.
> webado wrote:
> > The search doesn't work, as it reepats the same page with a query
> > string attached which doesn't do any better than the first time
> > through.
> > On 20 ao t, 10:37, cristina wrote:
> > > Sorry to repeat,
> > > I tried it on my site
Hi JLH,
I cannot find the source code for the widget
on a 404 URL from your site.
Are you sure you put the code in the
content generated for a 404 error?
> I couldn't get the search button to show up, it has something to do
> with CSS I just know it, and that stuff borders on black magic in my
> book so I took it off, perhaps to revisit it when all other things on
> my to do list are accomplished.
> On Aug 20, 10:04 am, cristina wrote:
> > Sorry, me again again.
> > It gives hint URLs for some incorrect URLs,
> > but not for all.
> > It is quite fun to try and find incorrect URLs for which
> > the widget gives good suggestions.
I took it off already. Looked ugly cuzz the Google Search button,
well, wasn't a button. Like I said, CSS black magic voodoo stuff, way
beyond my tolerance for tedious details.
> Hi JLH,
> I cannot find the source code for the widget
> on a 404 URL from your site.
> Are you sure you put the code in the
> content generated for a 404 error?
> Cristina.
> On Aug 20, 4:22 pm, JLH wrote:
> > I couldn't get the search button to show up, it has something to do
> > with CSS I just know it, and that stuff borders on black magic in my
> > book so I took it off, perhaps to revisit it when all other things on
> > my to do list are accomplished.
> > On Aug 20, 10:04 am, cristina wrote:
> > > Sorry, me again again.
> > > It gives hint URLs for some incorrect URLs,
> > > but not for all.
> > > It is quite fun to try and find incorrect URLs for which
> > > the widget gives good suggestions.
