How To Redirect All 404 Links To Home

Description

It is very important to understand the root cause of the 404 error in order to prevent such from happening in your blog 404 error usually begin when the link you are searching for does not exist on a particular blog or the link might have been modified/changed by the blog owners.

Other Causes of 404 error pages are When another blog is linking to a non-existing post link when you delete a blog post or page when moving pages or posts by redesigning your blog This is what 404 error page is all about and its common causes.

How to deal with 404 Error Page in blogger
It is very simple to deal with 404 error pages.

So All you need to do is to visit your already existing webmaster tool account (click on this link to learn how to add your blog in google webmaster tool) ,Click on the crawl section and right there you can find all the 404 Error Pages .

Here google has helped you to identify all the 404 error links on your blog but it is done only when those URL has been fetched by Google crawler , Usually  Google crawler visits your blog occasionally to search for a new link in order to index them, so when they come to your blog and find any dead link which is referred to as 404 links, it will be displayed on the crawl section.

How To Redirect All 404 Error Pages

you can agree with me that The default 404 Error Message displayed to you by Blogger is not appealing, so you might want to create your own 404 Error Message or you might want to Redirect All 404 Links to the home page of your blog in order not to lose the traffic, and i don't encourage new bloggers to redirect their 404 error links to the homepage of their blog rather.

I prefer they redirect the link to another existing link or by customising the 404 Page with useful links in it.

As we know that in blogger there is nothing like "Custom Page Not Found" in search preference, but using HTML you can create your own custom 404 error page that will be appealing to your blog visitor.

This page does not exist (moved or renamed) so You can go back to our home page using this link and You can browse our categories to find related articles.

Try using our search box to locate the correct page.

Just as stated earlier, personally I don't encourage this method but if you are that lay type of blogger that doesn't have time to Redirect Individual 404 Error Page to another existing page then go ahead by redirecting the error pages to your home page.

The Code Below is the code to redirect your 404 error links to the home page of your blog Just copy and paste the code on the Custom Page not Found , You can get it in Setting>> Search preferences>> Custom page not found.