404 Not Found? Turn 404 Error Page into Profit!

Easy way to make money from Error 404.

A 404 error occurs whenever someone requests a URL that is not on your server. Either they have mistyped something, or you moved or deleted a document that used to be on your web site.

So why lost this traffic?

With two-three simple lines of code you can redirect 404 traffic to a sponsor and make money automatically:

sample redirects:

with .htaccess :

404notfoundredirect .htaccess sample #1
#404notfoundredirect
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.yoursponsor.com/?youraffiliateidhere

with .htaccess Apache's mod-rewrite:

404notfoundredirect .htaccess with Apache's mod-rewrite sample #3
If http://www.examplesite.com/url/file.html does not exist,
redirect to http://www.examplesite.com/index.php

Put this in your site .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursponsor.com/?youraffiliateidhere

all wrong hits will be redirected to your site http://www.yoursponsor.com/?youraffiliateidhere

with javascript (put this page instead of moved/deleted page on your site)
404notfoundredirect Search Engine-Friendly JavaScript Redirect with Frames - sample #4

redirect with php:

404notfoundredirect Redirects with PHP - sample #5

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It annoys me like hell when 404's redirect to adverts.

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I don't think your sponsors will be happy to know you are *cheating* to make profit. And, yes, it is annoying as ****.

Honestly though I'd rather be redirected to a page that's working than a broken one. Long as the person doesn't redirect you to an adult site or one that's loaded with spyware I'm fine with it.

on the page where you can edit what your 404 will say why dont you just put your adsense/adbrite/clicksor/bidvertiser/whatever else ad code?that would be easier than doing all of that, plus i imagine it would be more profitable

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I'll prefer to redirect it to homepage

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really bugs me.... and to be honest... i dont really visit sucha site again which is so greedy !! ... i prefer it to show some informative page adn some helpful links.

Khuldun

Hmm, I like this idea, and with a bit of work, I am going to make a frame style error page like this .

nice idea, but i prefer redirecting them to a page that says "page not found" then add some adsense on it

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I'd prefer to just put an adsense ad on the page instead of redirecting them to a whole bunch of ads..

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