Find out how to immediately redirect all 404 error pages to homepage on blogger blogspot:
So i was just surfing the internet and asking myself how to solve the 404 errors for no longer existing or permanently deleted blog posts and if redirecting all urls which generate a 404 error to homepageUrl would solve this problem or not.
There is too many answers to how to redirect all urls that generate a 404 error to home page. Two of these answers are :
- Redirecting 404 error pages to home page using a javascript code (custom redirect);
- Redirecting 404 error pages to home page using a meta tag (for blogspot templates);
1 - how to redirect 404 error pages to home page using a javascript code?
a - Go to your blogger dashboard first;
b - Click settings;
c - Scroll down to the Errors and Redirect tab;
d - Click Custom 404;
f - copy and past the javascript code as show below (see the images):
<script>Souhailweb_redirect = setTimeout( function() {
location.pathname= "/"
}, 0 );</script>* note that you can replace the time value "0" to whatever you wants (10000 means 10 seconds and so on).
* note that the pathname value could be whatever page you want to redirect 404 error pages to ( ex: location.pathname="/p/contact.html"
2 - how to redirect 404 error pages to home page using a meta tag (on blogspot)? :
this is how to do a redirect to your home page on blogspot blog, :a - Go to your blogger dashboard first;
b - Click "theme";
c - Find and Click "Edit HTML";
d - Copy and past the meta tag code below in your theme between the <head> tags under the canonical url meta tag or the rss meta tags or so:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "error_page"'>
<meta content='0;url=/' http-equiv='refresh'/>
</b:if>
* note that you can replace the time value "0" to whatever you wants (5 means 5 seconds and so on).
* note that the "url=" value could be whatever page you want to redirect 404 error pages to ( ex: content='0; url=/p/contact.html')
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