Well, you shouldn't have any 404's LOL, I laugh but I'm actually serious. If it was an old page in the index somewhere you should never let it reach a 404 error. Our SEO team would kill us if we let a site re-design go with a 404.
Something I'm doing now on one of our sites since I don't even want to hold on to old .html or .php page names and make a 301 in IIS is change the default error template in IIS to use my 404error.cfm page. This could hold a list in memory of pages that generate 404 errors and when one of those page get called, this kicks in and does the following. <cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently"> <cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com";> <cfabort> For this project I know the directory structure is exactly the same even the page name, only thing that changed is the extension so with a quick replace and redirect the visitor never sees the 404 and on the SEO side, they think it was moved permanently. Of course you need to know what the new url is for this to work but it is one way to handle it. there are other ways to handle this when you are talking about a missing .cfm 404 error which is normally handled by coldfusion anyway so you can catch those and make a similar call like the one above or do a search of your site for pages that resemble the URL and state the visitor might be interested in one of these pages instead. Best option is always research it a bit and see if you can match the 404 page with a new page on your site, and fix the link as quickly as possible. -- Casey Dougall Web Applications Developer Ph: (518) 743-9424 Ext: 204 Fax:(518) 743-0337 Mannix Marketing Inc. 33 Park St. Third Floor, Glens Falls, New York 12801 On 2/6/07, Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a client who feels that CF handling 404 errors is a problem > with respect to SEO. He may be right. How do you folks handle a > genuine 404 in your CF-based 404 handler? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Janitor, The Robertson Team > mysecretbase.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268912 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
