[wp-testers] Um, Seriously?

[Paul Robinson]

I was never sure since, on my last host (which is what I think was causing
the problem since they were crap), I used to use a redirect on 404 and
google's webmaster tools refused to validate my site as it said the 404
pages returned 200 status. I now don't have any problems since I moved to
DreamHost, but since my host said it was my fault for redirecting 404's I
just assumed it was a bad idea to redirect 404...

Lieing *&%*£&%£ that they were. I still think having a 404 page is more
informative that redirections though. :P

Paul.

2009/2/19 scribu <scribu at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Paul Robinson <pablorobinson at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I was always told not too, especially since Google wouldn't be able to
> > distingush a 404 from a 200. I suppose it's each to their own though.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
>
> That's simply not true. Anyone who has a Webmasters Tools account can tell
> you that: There are diagnostics for 404s, redirection loops and network
> errors.
>
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