Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Geoff potential guests being led astray.

I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred them to WordPress the .html was stripped off 🙁

So now if you click on an old google search term it comes up with File not Found (404) error. Not good for ones rankings.

I am using John Godleys redirection plugin but to make full use of it I need to learn how to create regular expressions, so far with no luck! (anyone out there willing to help, please). I have created a help topic on the regex advice forum and also asked John Godley for advice too.

Today Google came to the rescue with a neat 404 webpage that is customised to your site if you use Google Webmaster Tools. So now you get this useful little page:-

But I really need to get the hang of \b(https://geoffjones.com/2.*?)\.\w+/(?!\w) and its ilk plus how to add them to a .htaccess file….

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Reader Comments

  1. I'm going to be busy moving boxes around for the next two days, but if you still haven't got it sorted by Friday, drop me a line and I'm sure I can help out with the regexps.

  2. Oh I have seen the troubles my friend went through having to re-align his old blog urls with the new ones he created on WP. It is a tedious task, but luckily you already know about the 404 error package and how it aids in simplifying this task. What my friend did was more than time-consuming, but he made sure every blog stuck by having each of his old links re-direct directly to his new url for that particular blog post. Yeah imagine doing that over 400 times! I hope you find success with the 404 package. Have a great weekend! Take care.

  3. Oh I have seen the troubles my friend went through having to re-align his old blog urls with the new ones he created on WP. It is a tedious task, but luckily you already know about the 404 error package and how it aids in simplifying this task. What my friend did was more than time-consuming, but he made sure every blog stuck by having each of his old links re-direct directly to his new url for that particular blog post. Yeah imagine doing that over 400 times! I hope you find success with the 404 package. Have a great weekend! Take care.

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