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Internet_Tip_ _Honor_Your_Viewers
| Internet Tip - Honor Your Viewers
If you own a web site, you never know who has saved a page from
your site to their favorites file (bookmarked it). It might be
your home page, a great article, or a terrific resource. And
since you don't know, every time you remove a page, you run the
risk of people getting that annoying "page not found" error when
they click on their favorites link.
You can always find out later how many visits your "removed
pages" have had by viewing your site statistics and examining
your error log (if you have one)-but by then its maybe too late.
When you remove a page, honor your viewers by providing them
with an option. Take the page you want to remove and turn it
into a redirected page. Redirect it to your home page or another
page on your site that contains similar information. How do you
do this? Let me give you an example.
I had a page on my site called
www.coachmaria.com/coachability.html. The information originally
on that page is no longer useful, so I removed it and inserted
the HTML code below. Now when someone goes to the old page, they
are "redirected" to another page. Try it
www.coachmaria.com/coachability.html The HTML code I used on the
page below for you to view.or use. The number "2" in the "meta
tag" represents the number of seconds it will take to redirect
the page. Change this number as you see fit. The "meta tag"
information takes the page directly to another page (in this
case contest.html). I use the other information "just in case"
the meta tag redirect doesn't work. It gives the viewer the
option of tapping on a link to move directly to the redirected
page. Your webmaster would also have to remove the dot I put
into each of the HTML tags below. (If I didn't add them here,
you wouldn't be able to view the code below).
*Maria's Place Redirector* We have moved the page you've saved. You will be
taken to a new page immediately.
Click
Here if the page takes too long to load.
Bonus: This program provides an on line, fill in the blanks
form, that produces HTML code you've requested for your
re-direct page. It's by InnerPeace.org who calls it a jumper
page program. http://innerpeace.org/pagejumper.shtml
About the author:
Maria Marsala, Business & Life
Coach-Consultant-Author-Teacher-Speaker. Visit
www.CoachMaria.com for more information and to subscribe to
"Growing You and Your Business" a free weekly on-line
newsletter.
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