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#1 05-15-2015 07:42:49

CrownRoyal
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Registered: 01-10-2009
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suggestion: auto redirects and tracking '404: Not Found'

I think it would be a great idea (at least for our store), that when a person get a '404: Not Found', the software be able to $_GET the 'ref' and check a db table to see if its listed and has a redirect URL. It would involve a table of 'old_id' and 'new_id' fields. It would allow the store to still capture potential customers who visit from old links on the web. My store stats record at least 1,000 404's a week, there's some lost potential there.

And to improve upon that, the 404 page could record the 'ref' so that we can manage what errors are being produced.

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#2 05-16-2015 09:11:34

jj1987
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Registered: 07-14-2008
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Re: suggestion: auto redirects and tracking '404: Not Found'

CrownRoyal wrote:

I think it would be a great idea (at least for our store), that when a person get a '404: Not Found', the software be able to $_GET the 'ref' and check a db table to see if its listed and has a redirect URL. It would involve a table of 'old_id' and 'new_id' fields. It would allow the store to still capture potential customers who visit from old links on the web. My store stats record at least 1,000 404's a week, there's some lost potential there.

And to improve upon that, the 404 page could record the 'ref' so that we can manage what errors are being produced.

Where are these 404's coming from?  If you do proper 301 redirects for any page that you move, you should ALMOST never see a 404 aside from a user typing the url wrong.



-James Garrett

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#3 05-16-2015 14:28:21

CrownRoyal
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Re: suggestion: auto redirects and tracking '404: Not Found'

any product id that is no longer available, or have been upgrade to another product from another drop shipper (produces new id). So someone clicking on a link to an old product id will be sent to the page in the store that generates the default 404. Does v8 offer 301 management? If so I was not aware of that.

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#4 05-18-2015 06:27:02

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Re: suggestion: auto redirects and tracking '404: Not Found'

You'll need to add any 301s you need to your .htaccess file manually.  It handles the 404s automatically, but 301s are really on you.  You really only need them for highly popular product, category and html pages that you delete (and don't reuse the id).


Nick Hendler

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