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SEO: 404 Headers

Lisa Wess

Posted: 07 February 2008 03:58 PM

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In any site, the designer or developer should make sure that the appropriate headers are sent with page requests. It is especially important to ensure that “Not Found” documents send out a proper 404 header.

ExpressionEngine gives you many tools to assist with this, so how about we explore those here?

Onwards!

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Posted: 07 February 2008 07:53 PM

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Thanks for this ... should check my sites

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Bruce2005

Posted: 08 February 2008 09:22 PM

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Good stuff Lisa.
I did a wiki page a bit ago.
And here’s a place to check 404 headers:

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Chris Williams

Posted: 10 February 2008 12:50 PM

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I’m defaulting to a specific entry on the home page.

{if segment_1 == ""}
        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" entry_id="28" disable="member_data|trackbacks" rdf="off"}
            <title>{title}</title>
            <meta name="description" content="{exp:html_strip}{summary}{/exp:html_strip}" />
            <meta name="keywords" content="{exp:html_strip}{keywords}{/exp:html_strip}" />
        {/exp:weblog:entries}
    {if:else}
        {exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" limit="1" disable="member_data|trackbacks" rdf="off"}
            <title>{title} - My Site Title</title>
            <meta name="description" content="{exp:html_strip}{summary}{/exp:html_strip}" />
            <meta name="keywords" content="{exp:html_strip}{keywords}{/exp:html_strip}" />
        {/exp:weblog:entries}
    {/if} 

When I put in the redirect code in the IF/ELSE portion, every page is a 404 error.

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Lisa Wess

Posted: 12 February 2008 01:55 PM

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Ah, sorry I missed this here Chris. We’re discussing in this thread now.

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