Earlier I wrote about earning money from your missing pages and today I will continue on the same theme. If you (like me) are using Wordpress for your blogs you already got a ready-made “404 Page not found” page. Unfortunately it’s not that nice since it will only tell the user that the requested page wasn’t found .

Luckily it’s really easy to change that . Just open the file called 404.php found in /wp-content/themes/the name of your theme/ in your favorite text editor (like Notes or Wordpad).

<h2 class="center">Error 404 - Not Found</h2>

After the above text simply tell the visitor how to find the most popular things on your blog and also how the visitor can search your site.

At Article Finders I added the following lines of text in 404.php (just see for yourself at www.articlefinders.com/no-page-like-this):

<P>If you're looking for the submission for to submit

articles to us, then please visit <a

href="/submit-articles/" class=gen>this page</A>.</P>

<P>If you're looking for the latest articles, then

visit <a href="/" class=gen>main page</A>

instead.</P>

A smart thing to do would also be to tell the visitors how to subscribe to your feed so the always get the latest news from your blog (and also get the correct URLs ). Instead of losing traffic you could gain a few new subscribers

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