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404 error pages, SEO and your website

Published on 7th March 2010 01:57 AM Number of Views: 1188

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So you are optimising your website for search engines.
You have taken care of on-page and off-page SEO (search engine optimisation) but you are not finished yet as you want to really go for it full on by making and setting up your custom 404 error pages.

In this article you will find all you need to know about custom 404 error pages

What is a 404 error page?

Typically, a 404 error is an error that a web server returns to someone who is trying to view a page that was moved or deleted.
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Beautiful custom bbcodes for vBulletin

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Published on 1st March 2010 03:00 AM Number of Views: 5225

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This article will show you how to create beautiful bbcodes for vBulletin without adding unnecessary load to pages of your website. We want to keep our website pages efficient and search engine friendly! ...

Upgrading from vBulletin 3.5 to 4.02

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Published on 21st February 2010 04:43 PM Number of Views: 3618

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Upgrading from vBulletin 3.5 to 4.02. My nightmare !

The amount of work and the amount of issues that I had to deal with !

I first had to update vBulletin from 3.5 to 3.8. I had to remove all vBulletin addons, backup files, database and create a testing installation of effectica. This was the only part that went quite smoothly.

After that, I had to update the webserver (Apache, php and Mysql) to versions compatible with vb4.02.

vBulletin reccomends:

PHP: 5.2.6 or newer
MySQL: 5.0.19 or newer

I updated to newer versions, but make no mistakes....it was a nightmare.

Easyapache was playing up. I kept getting this error message:
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