User:Htmlhero2013

Why you should redirect your 404 error pages?

If your page on Wordpress does not exist anymore and yields to a HTTP status code 404 error page, and your page has a lot of valuable backlinks, it may affect your Page ranking, your Traffic, your SEO work in a very negative way.

When traffic comes to your page via backlinks, and the visitors sees a 404 error page, they may never come back again, and furthermore 404 error pages affect your site on search engines.

In this tutorial, i will show you how to redirect your 404 error pages on Wordpress. Now to redirect your 404 error pages on Wordpress follow the steps below:

Go to Appearance >>> Editor in your wordpress back-end. Cody and Paste the HTML code below in your 404.php file.

<?php header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: ".get_bloginfo('url')); exit;

http://www.azulblog.com/2014/01/how-to-redirect-404-error-pages-to-your.html