What does 404 page not found mean
404 not found. This is exactly what we will talk about, solving the problem of page 404, on your blog or site in Blogger, and, Word Press, and converting it to the home page, or any page you choose, through professional codes, because page 404, causes a lot of problems on your site, And we'll talk about the Damage caused by page 404, on your site and how to solve that problem.If a page is permanently deleted from the pages of the website or returned to the publishing draft - such as the draft of Blogger-WordPress - this makes it non-existent for the public.
What can error 404 do?
Page 404 causes several damages to your site, or your blog on Blogger, or WordPress, or any other platform, and this is something that is not liked by the Google search engine, or any other search engine, let's get to know those
- damages Increase bounce rate on your site.
- Low number of visitors on your site
- Lower profits
- Low search engine rating for your site
- Preference for some other sites on your site relative to search engines
How do I fix 404 Not Found?
Now, we will start solving the problem of the 404 page on Blogger, and WordPress, and convert it to the home page on your blog, or any page on your site, or a specific section, as well as the URL will be converted, to another URL, in the event of a change of address, by code, it will be placed in the blog, or by settings, as well as we will put code by HTML, we will also delete links that do not exist, so that the 404 page does not appear on your blog, or your site, on Blogger, or WordPress.
How do I fix a soft 404 error
- First, download the codes
- Second, go to the Blogger Blog
- No.1 Click on the Settings
- No.2 On the left, look for errors and orientation process
- No.3 Click on a dedicated 404 page
- No.4 A pop-up window will appear, put the second icon , type your URL, or put any section in your blog, you should Replace this code #, then type the URL
- No.5 Click on Save, now the operation has been successful, you can try clicking on any link that does not exist, it will be redirected to the home page
- Note, this code is for Blogger only
How to convert a 404 page, to a homepage, or any section of your blog, or any platform via HTML
The explanation will be on Blogger as an example.
- The explanation will be on the Blogger platform as an example
- Go to the Blogger blog, then click on the theme
- On the left, click on the drop-down arrow, a pop-up window will appear, click on Edit HTML
- On the HTML page, right-click, in any free space, then click the Ctrl + f button on your keyboard
- Next to the word Search, which appeared at the top of the page, type a word</body>, then click enter, the word will appear</body>, in yellow
- Put the first code, previously downloaded, above this tag
- Replace this # with the URL of your site, or any section of your blog, then click Save
How to make a custom redirect, on Blogger
- go to the Blogger Blog
- Click on the Settings
- On the left, look for errors and orientation process
- Click on the word Custom Reorientation, a pop-up window will appear
- In the pop-up window, click on the word Add, a pop-up window will appear
- Write the link to the post that you removed or whose title was changed
- Type the new link of the post, to which you want to convert the previous link
- That option, if you want to convert permanently.
- Click on OK to activate that process
How to remove links, 404, from Google Search Console
After the 404 page links have been converted to the homepage, and this is not a root solution to the problem, to solve that problem, you must delete the non-existent links permanently, or convert them to new links, we will delete the 404 links completely, from Google Search Console, let's find out together how doing that
- First, go to that site, drlinkcheck.
- Click on Dr Link Check at the top the page
- On the new page
- Type your site URL and Click on START Chech, to start analyzing your site, and searching for links that do not exist 404
- Register on the site if you want to
- Wait for your site to be scanned After going to the new page
- After the scan, the scan result in pages that do not exist 404 will appear in the issue Types field.
- Here is the scan result, pages 404 will appear, Click on it
- After going to the new page
- Links that are not found will appear, and next to them 404 not found
- Copy the links that do not exist, let's delete them permanently
how to Permanently delete 404 links from your blog
You must remove the links that appear in the search engine only, Or has been archived, but if they do not appear in the search engines, there is no need to take any action, to find out the links that appear in the search engine, type this line in your browser and then click on enter, site: https://cairorepair.blogspot.com/.
- No. 1, type this line in the browser, change the URL of my blog, type the URL of my blog
- On the new page, your blog articles will appear that appear in search engines.
- Delete, 404 non-existent articles, which appear in the previous program drlinkcheck, which appear in search engines only
- Now, you have to log in to Google Search Console, choose your blog, permanently delete 404 links from your blog.
- Selection of the removal process
- Choose a new order
- Type the 404 link, after copying the link from the previous program
- Choose to Remove only this URL
- Click on Next, to complete the deletion process
- Repeat this process until you permanently get rid of the links 404
- Now, Google will permanently delete 404 links from your site for about 6 months.