3,089 404's in 3 days.

[ZeRohiLL]

How can I control this? Or convert it to visits?

 

[Brady]

If it is a developed site, you can create custom 404 pages where they are presented with or redirected to whatever page you want.

I do it through my control panel at Pair Networks, so don't know how to on other hosts, but contact support or maybe someone here can answer more thoroughly

 

[ZeRohiLL]

Thanks for the quick post brady, but its @ Parked.com.

-Zh

 

[Deleted member 5660]

I think it is already counted. It redirects to the main parking page. They just keep a tally of vistits that go to a page not found instead of just the domain. Usually it is a backlink from a domain that used to have a web site.

 

[Brady]

Yeah, Parked.com redirects 404s to the main parking page.

Check out ACLSurgery.org and then go to ACLSurgery.org/545dgdtgjw and they should both go to the same place

Is something different happening for your domains?

 

[ZeRohiLL]

I guess not, it's going to the main parking page when i type in/some/deep/dir

I guess I just hate seeing it have a thousand 404's with literally x visitors a day.

 

[David G]

I guess I just hate seeing it have a thousand 404's with literally x visitors a day.

That is a very good issue to discuss.

In the past I have seen evidence that both parking firms and Google/Yahoo do *not* count 404 traffic as being valid traffic (but I seem to recall Donny at parked.com once saying they count the 404 clicks if I understood that correctly).

It would be interesting to discover that maybe one of them does indeed count 404 traffic as valid. (IMO, most 404's should be considered good traffic because a high percentage is usually valid but going to a bad sub-page url).

 

[Donny Simonton]

ZeRohiLL - What we do differently than some parking companies is that we show when there is a 404, but we don't count that as a visitor as it's truely a 404. If the surfer does anything, then we also add them as a visitor.

So 404 traffic is good if it does something. But if people are hitting broken images or other stuff that they won't see then we consider it to be worthless.

Donny

 

[ZeRohiLL]

Thanks Donny.

I actually ended up pointing the NS to my hosting and tried the frame redirect, but the results where IMO terrible.

It didn't justify the 404's that I was getting with Parked.com, in other words, I put on a 404 redirect in .htaccess, but all the 404's I was getting when NS where at parked.com didn't show up as visitors.

So, pointing Nameservers to Parked.com I get about 1,000 404's a day with x visitors.

Pointing my Nameservers to Host with .htaccess 404 redirect I get 0 404's and still only x visitors.

Hope this helps clarify.

Thanks

-Zh

 

[Donny Simonton]

Zh - It's your .cc domain. But make sure in your DNS to put a *.domain.cc. Because it seems to be virtual.

Donny

 

[ZeRohiLL]

Zh - It's your .cc domain. But make sure in your DNS to put a *.domain.cc. Because it seems to be virtual.

Donny

Thanks Again Donny.

I had gotten a hold of my account rep and he told me where the traffic was coming from.

But what do you mean by virtual?

Thanks

-Zh

 

[Donny Simonton]

The traffic is going to "two.domain.cc"

Donny

 

[ZeRohiLL]

The traffic is going to "two.domain.cc"

Donny

Thats what the rep said.

I'm trying to redirect that (since it's giving me the 404's) to the top domain.

Thanks Again

-Zh