The first paragraph of an article is a summary of the article's content, which should be up to 550 characters long. This article discusses the importance of respecting your website's audience by ensuring that they do not encounter "page not found" errors when they click on their bookmarked links. It also provides a practical example of how to redirect a removed page to another page on your site, thus enhancing the user experience.
As a website owner, it's impossible to know who has bookmarked a page from your site. It could be your homepage, an insightful article, or a valuable resource. Therefore, every time you delete a page, you risk causing frustration for your visitors when they encounter the dreaded "page not found" error upon clicking their bookmarked link.
You can always check your site statistics and error log (if available) later to see how many visits your "removed pages" have had. However, by then, it might be too late.
When you delete a page, it's crucial to respect your audience by offering them an alternative. You can achieve this by transforming the page you want to remove into a redirected page. This means that the page will automatically lead visitors to your homepage or another page on your site with similar content.
For instance, I had a page on my site, www.coachmaria.com/coachability.html, which no longer contained relevant information. I removed it and inserted the HTML code below. Now, when someone visits the old page, they are "redirected" to another page. You can try it here.
The HTML code I used on the page is available 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. You can adjust this number as needed. 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 clicking on a link to go 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).
This program provides an online, fill-in-the-blanks form that generates the HTML code you need for your redirect page. It's by InnerPeace.org, who calls it a jumper page program.
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