{"id":284,"date":"2007-07-25T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/07\/25\/page-not-found-404-of-10-popular-websites\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T11:02:28","slug":"page-not-found-404-of-10-popular-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/07\/25\/page-not-found-404-of-10-popular-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Not Found (404) of 10 popular websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people seem to be neglecting the importance of a good Page Not Found (404) page when designing a website.   A good 404 page should help visitors find what they are initially looking for, and keep them on the site.  Not having an effective 404 page can cause a great loss of potential traffic to the site.  Let's have a look at 404 pages of 10 very popular websites on the web.  <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/digg_404.jpg' alt='Digg \/ Page Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/error\">Digg \/ Page Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/technorati_404.jpg' alt='Technorati: 404' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/404\">Technorati: 404<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/google_404.jpg' alt='Google: 404 Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/404\">Google: 404 Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wordpress_404.jpg' alt='WordPress 404' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/404\">WordPress 404<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/php_404.jpg' alt='PHP: 404' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/404\">PHP: 404<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/ebay_404.jpg' alt='eBay - Page Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.ebay.com\/404\">eBay - Page Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/delicious_404.jpg' alt='del.icio.us: 404' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/pagenotfound\">del.icio.us: 404<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/facebook_404.jpg' alt='Facebook | Page Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/404\">Facebook | Page Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/flickr_404.jpg' alt='Flickr: Page Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/4454\">Flickr: Page Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/wikipedia_404.jpg' alt='Wikipedia Page Not Found' \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/404\">Wikipedia Page Not Found<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how some popular sites are letting their traffic escape through a poorly designed 404 page.   Shh,  I am also guilty of it! :P <\/p>\n<p>[tags]404, website, design, IA, websites[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people seem to be neglecting the importance of a good Page Not Found (404)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-www"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Page Not Found (404) of 10 popular websites | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; Resources<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/07\/25\/page-not-found-404-of-10-popular-websites\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Page Not Found (404) of 10 popular websites | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; 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