Make Extra Sales from Custom
Error Pages
What happens when
someone types the wrong address in for your website. I am
sure you have seen these error messages, "Error 404 Page not
Found"
This is wasted space.
Why not put a One Time Offer or a link to another one of your products
on this page and make a sale.
I use this on my
websites. I don't make a lot of sales, but I do get a few.
Internet Guru, Mike Filsaime makes over $700 per month on his
error pages. Don't waste your website error pages, make the
most of them.
You have two different ways of doing this,
depending on what kind of Hosting Server your website runs on.
To find out what kind of server your website runs on,
Click Here.
Top 5 Error Pages you should
change.
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Error 400 - "Bad Request"
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Error 401 - "Unauthorized"
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Error 403 - "Forbidden"
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Error 404 - "Page not Found"
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Error 500 - "Internal Server Error"
Windows IIS Servers
If your website is on a Windows Server then all
you need to do is create normal HTML pages. You might need
to ask your hosting company where to save them and what to name
them. Normally they would be saved in the root folder of
your website.
I use "1 and 1 Website Hosting" and they want me to name
them like this:
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error400.html
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error401.html
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error403.html
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error404.html
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error500.html
Unix / Linux Servers running Apache
You will need to Create or Edit a ".htaccess"
file. Its a file that controls access to other files in your site.
Look for this file in the root of your website folders. It can be
hidden, so you would need to tell your FTP Client to show hidden files
so you can view it.
You can create a folder to store your
error pages and also create the error pages.
"Example: FolderName/error404.htm"
Before you edit the file, its always a
good idea to save a backup copy. Just in case.
