Scott wiseman writes:

I agree with the 404 page comment above. You must look for every bit of traffic. the one thing that I have noticed is the what now affect. What now after you have the visitor on your page. How do you convert. It is so hard to get them there we run out of steam after that. Now we have to convert to a paying customer.
having a form or a phone number is great for offline companies, for ecommerce of course purchasing on line is the best

just my thoughts

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

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Specifically, we don’t allow resource boxes or sig lines in blog comments. You only get one link and that link must be linked up to your name please (keywords not allowed to be used for your name), etc. Thanks for understanding! :) Now on with the discussion.

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Deepak Morris writes:

I’ve found tinyurl ( http://tinyurl.com/ ) very useful in shortening long URLs.

I use it all the time when I post in forums and need to specify a link that either breaks or forces sideways scrolling if it is posted “as is”.

As the name suggests, tinyurl takes a long URL and shortens it to about 25 characters.

Deepak

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Deepak,

For the benefit of others:

We do allow TinyURL links;

BUT, if it’s used to flip a visitor to an Affiliate Link or a suspected affiliate link, the article may be rejected.

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Cynthia Pinsonnault writes:

I see this problem a lot in forums, discussion lists, etc. Even if they don’t break, they can look confusing to some readers, or worse, look suspicious. As Deepak said, TinyURL is a wonderful tool to shorten those long, confusing URLs into something easy.

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Khalid Alabid writes:

Dear Chris,
I am very much related to this problem as I have checked some of my links and I found some mistakes. But I have two questions:
1. if I wanted to solve this 404 error problem, how can I do that.
2. The author mentioned something about 404 log file which keeps track of all 404 traffic I missed due to this mistake. Where do I find it in my log file as my web hosting company does not have this type of stats.

Please get back to me..

Cheers..

Khalid

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Khalid,

1) I already shared with you how to solve your 404 problem: Contact your webmaster or your web hosting provider ( http://www.servage.net/?a=404error )and ask them how to solve it. It’s different for every type of webserver.

2. Ask your web hosting service provider to help you with this. That is their job. If they say it’s not their job to provide you with this data, find a different web host provider.

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Christina Sponias writes:

I think one must use only the domain name.
Speed is also very important, besides a short and clear url that won’t be problematic.

We have to make things simple, easy and fast if we want to please our readers/visitors/clients.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Chris, I had done this orgininally, I would like to change my link to the actual, main domain name rather than that specific page. Of course, with 11,111 articles, you can perhaps see why I haven’t changed it. I agree with you completely, I was even thinking on this a week ago, so your timing is excellent on this issue.

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Lori Ross writes:

?
I didn’t know you had to copy and paste two separate sections – when you hit “copy” even a cracked or long link will get picked up entirely.

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