Making Money Online With Missing Pages
Websites update their link structures, and visitors sometimes have fat fingers, so they make typos when trying to get to your blog. We’ve all seen the ‘404 Oops, sorry, we couldn’t find the page you’ve requested’ right? And what a waste of perfectly good virtual real estate! Just because there’s nothing there doesn’t mean it should be neglected and not make you any money! Its one of the best spots on your blog to create a passive income stream. We’ll show you how simple it is to monetize the missing pages on your blog.
25969 hits equals a lot of missed opportunities to make some money online, wouldn’t you agree? Sure, we could have put up a cute 404 page with some wierd stuff on it, but besides the occasional chuckle, you’re pretty much not getting anything else out of it.
So here’s what we did; create a special page that revolves around making money online and you make sure that you have this line of code in your 404.php file:
< ?php
header ('Location: http://www.johncow.com/tools-and-ebooks/' );
?>
*(There’s no space between the first < and ?php )
All this does is redirect any typos after your domain.com (http://www.johncow.com/resistanceisfutile-youwillmakememoney) directly to your money making page so all those poor visitors that got lost will be able to click on your affiliate links! This is an easy fix and will definitely start to make you more money in the long run. Make sure you update the ‘landing page’ regularly with new products to keep the crawlers coming back for more. Needless to say, try to link back to that same or a linked ‘landing page’ with one set of keywords. It will get you on the first page of Google in the long run!
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Cow , this is one thing that affiliate marketeers make money from. It is from the same thing that you will make Mooney again.
Thanks, Cow.
Interesting idea ( and it’s now been stumbled upon.)
Great post! I think 404 pages aren’t utilized because people don’t know how to set it up.
Sneaky move. Good idea though.
LOL there is another Johny Cow now…
Interesting.
Should be interesting to see if you actually have any success from it. There’s no harm in trying though - particularly if you moved to Wordpress from Blogger.
nice - I do teh same thing with my blog but I put the post, archives, categories, and a contextual ads to help them out a little bit - a lot of people do not understand they can be making money off someones mistakes
hey cow i tried that code and it didn’t quite work for me…instead i used this for my link and had success:
damn, the code didn’t show up let me try to wordpresstize it
<? header("Location: http://www.YourLinkHere.com"); ?>if i can’t get this affiliate link to show up this time i’ll email you
i’ll test it, but I don’t know, it might only work sites like this one
sneaky little tip that never even crossed my mind. off to to put some code on my sites now.
Very good idea…You are really the evil
I dont have any lmissing pages yet I wonder can you use this on regiular websites because i see some people selling 404 pAGES ON SITEPOINT
Great stuff, I got this post stumbled and SiteHopped.
Your article is very much interesting but I don’t understand the technical suggestions. So I have passed your link to my designer and hope this could be a good tool for him, if it work- My thanks for your suggestion.
Nice post.
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Outstanding idea! You guys keep coming up with just the right simple fixes. It’s astounding how many hits that 404 page gets.
Shouldn’t that redirect be a 301?
thanks for this article , I also wanna put 404 page with some wierd stuff on
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Really interesting but a little bit hard to understand and follow. Try to simplify the instructions so that others can follow.
Hi,
I never know I can monetise the 404 page. Thanks for the tips. I am definitely going to apply this now.
That was a really nice tip! Now I can finally put good use to my 404 page instead of just plugging in links to my other posts.
Great tips. You never know what people would look for or when we would just deleting some page. It is a just simple script but could worth millions.
This is definitely a great idea. Not letting any of your pageviews go to any waste.
What a great idea. The 404 pages get tons of hits, so why not overload them with ads. I know what I will be doing later tonight.
Thanks for the cool idea.
Great money making tip. I also want to show you a tutorial I’ve written few days ago related to link cloaking and link redirected that can be mixed with your technique to achieve even more profits
http://richbeaver.com/webmasters/link-cloaking-step-by-step-guide/
Nuts!!!!!!!! these 404 Errors really make the internet marketers go crazy unless they know how to make money out of the errors. great tip cow.
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Ideally you should send a http code 301 or 404 (I’d send 404) otherwise you return a “Found” code (can’t remember the number) for everything which might hurt your SEO but will suggest that you try to respond to every possible URL (spammy).
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