Did you ever knew that you are loosing a lot of revenue / traffic from the error pages[400, 401, 403, 404, 500] and this can be monetized very easily. The trick is to first create a completely perfect version of your error page and upload them via the cpanel of your website.
Steps :
Just login to your Cpanel Account > Click on Error pages [With this tool you can create custom error pages to display when a user enters a wrong URL, an outdated URL or when the user is not authorized to access a specific directory of your web space. ]
You will be shown with 5 different types of Error Pages
400 - (Bad request)
401 – (Authorization required)
403 - (Forbidden)
404 - (Wrong page)
500 - (Internal server error)
Click on the 404 Error page Image link and you will be shown with a page like this :
These are the options available to your for monetizing / using the traffic which hits to your error pages :
> Try to add all your designed HTML Page code here and save it, so it does not show a broken link when a visitor views http://www.amitbhawani.com/errorpagelink
> You can just add couple affiliate banners on this Page which will be visible to the visitors who are going to view this page
> Show your sitemap page when someone goes to your error page so they can continue reading other posts/pages on your website.
> Redirect this page to your Homepage
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This one is damn cool. Works wonder for me.
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nice one buddy, never gave a thought to it.
will definately try it in free time.
thnax for the tip
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Redirecting a 404 page to your site map or home page is an excellent idea, but how exactly do you do it? Please can you expand this into a brief tutorial? Thanks!
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