SEO Boost from Google 404 Plugin

Hey all,

This plugin is amazing! It needs more Press! I will be including this on my next list of must have wordpress plugins. Great job with this, I have it working on my site if anyone wants to see another site with it. Very easy to install. just go to mustech.net/anythinghere and it will pop up.

Hi, I have installed this plugin on my blog but for some reasons, I think it doesn't work if your permalink has the "date" on it, for example on my blog.

(1) If I typed "http://chenpn.com/funny-people/", the 404 page will load perfectly OK.

(2) But if I typed "http://chenpn.com/2007/09/14/funny-people/", the 404 page won't load. But unfortunately, my permalink has the date in it.

Is this a bug?

Amazing work. Thanks.

I just had one question. On the first tab and the Web tab, there is a section on the bottom called Sponsored Links. Is this hooked into your own google adsense account? If not, who is getting the money in relation to these sponsored ads?

Thanks for the reply AskApache. So far, those who have read my post about this plugin have installed it and have been pleased with the results.

Hi there.

I'm having a small issue with your plug-in. The search results doesn't seem to show. Any idea?

Also, how do i strip/replace the dashes from the search query?

Thanks for the excellent plugin.

My problem is exactly same as the above!

Thanks! This is one plugin that I am going to share with all my readers

What exactly has changed in this latest release?

I'm looking for a bit different functionality. We're coming from Joomla, and the URLs they use lacked any title/stub at all (/content/view/%article-id%) for example.

So, the plugin isn't going to help in terms of migrating from Joomla... since it's just going to search the WordPress site for "content view %article-id%" and come up with nothing.

Is there a way to have it grab the Google Search Query from the referring URL? I'd much rather pass along what the user entered as their search query... as that's more likely to dig up relevant content in the site itself.

This is fabulous, thank you!

Hey Hi :) I just installed your 404 plugin - great work and thankyou, thankyou, thank you,

my second day at blogging and still trying to get my head around everything, found your spot during my travels and though I must say - most of what you have onyour iste flies right over my head, but still makes for very interesting reading, I'm sure I'm going to learn a lot here still especially the htaccess stuff and rewrites.

Melanie

I managed to upgrade your plugin but now the search does not function anymore. I've tried to get a new API key but even that doesn't solve the problem. What else should I try>

I have no idea how I fixed it except that I was just playing around trying various things and eventually, I clicked on the Reset Options to make the thing go back to default and it finally worked. Looks like for whatever reason, the api key had something to do with the problem. Looks like the whole key was not properly added into the plugin options even though I swear I copied and pasted the google API key about 100 times. At any rate, all is well it seems.

I upgraded to the latest 4.2 version and it stopped working. I cleared everything and installed from scratch and still no go. So I reinstalled 3.0 and it worked again. I don't know what's wrong.

I love this plugin! Unfortunately, it doesn't work "right out of the box" with my template. Nothing else has, so I know it isn't because of the plugin - apparently, it's just an odd template. The template didn't come with its own 404 page, but I've tried customizing the plugin and now MOST of the results are showing up properly. Unfortunately, the "404" part is still where the left sidebar should begin, and the sidebar content isn't appearing 'til after the plugin-generated content is finished in the main container of the page.
I realize that might not make any sense, but you can see what I mean at http://technomom.com/404/test-404-page-plugin-askapache-wordpress-plugin-search-engine.html

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Cyn

Hi,
You are using google Ajax search API, my question is can we use a single google api id for wordpress plugin development? A little off topic, but I will really appreciate your answer.

Nice plug-in, BUT it screws up my template. It moves the second sidebar down under the text for the plug-in which makes it look pretty strange. I have tried changing the CSS to correct for this, but my changes have done nothing.

So right now your plug-in is not usable. Undoubtedly some operator error somewhere, but I don't know where so I have deactivated the plug-in until I hear a solution.

Hello to everybody.
Is this plugin processing only 404 errors?
How can I make it process other errors?
Thank u.

Thanks a lot for this amazing plugin.
Best regards.

I just installed it (in WP.2.5.1) and it works perfectly, and I'm very grateful for your plugin. There is just one minor snag, more aestetic than important..
At the top of the administrative part, after the phrase "SEO Boost from 404 Plugin? Focus on humans" and before the test-search box, there is a bunch of garbage code visible, looking like this (a snippet only):

cite="http://www.">Project-Id-Version: sv_SE Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: wp-polyglots@lists.automattic.com POT-Creation-Date: 2008-04-25 15:51+0000 PO-Revision-Date: 2008-04-26 04:59+0100 Last-Translator: Mattias Tengblad Language-Team: WP-Support Sverige MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rosetta-Version: 0.1 Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1 X-Poedit-Country: SWEDEN X-Generator: KBabel 1.9.1 X-Poedit

It seems like it is trying to translate something into swedish (which is my language) and is failing miserably :)

However - everything works perfectly at the front end, and the documentation tells everything I need to know, so I don't think there is any emergency - just wanted to let you know.

Man this is an amazing plugin :)
nice work around .. will simply increase the page visits by people who just keep stumbling upon 404 pages ..

I am wondering if this plugin can be used to create a site map

ie. instead of showing a site map written in php.. if google search results can be presented it will be wonderful

This plugin was working great but has suddeny; become odd! I've tried deleting it completly and re-installing it but the following happens...

if i type /prince-discography/tester - the plug in works
but if i type in /tester - the plug in ignores the 404 error and seems to just show latest posts

any help welcome :)

I think I will wait for the new version to come out after reading all those issues up there. cheers!

Thanks for the sweet plugin.

However, it does not work properly with Wordpress 2.6.1.

The plugin activates appropriately and tries to work when I get 404s. But the only search tab that has any results is the CSE tab. Any idea why that would happen?

hey man great plugin; i just wondering is it possible to integrate google adsense search instead of the ajax? or your adsense id?

Cheers

Donace

Hi askapache,

You have a great site, very it's very informative! Thanks a lot!

When I first saw this plug in I thought "how cool, what a clever idea" but after thinking about it for a bit I concluded that this isn't such a great idea after all... Why would you want to publicize and even encourage visitors to your site to go somewhere else when their intent was to visit your site?

Unless you rank in the top 10 or so I see this as being a counterproductive idea, just my 2 cents...

Gary

How about integrating the Google enhanced 404 page widget? That would make an awesome addition to this plugin!

Here's the intro: Make your 404 pages more useful

Hi, I've installed the 404 plugin long back, everything was working good untill I updated my theme to the new version back in october 2008, now the plugin works good in the admin panel, but not in live 404 pages; please check this example and help me solving this out.

I just installed the plugin. And I have a question :P

Is there a way to change the "Related Pages to the Request" text, and remove the "More Related Pages to the Request"? I couldn't find out how to do it.

Take a look how it is looking at my blog: http://hikari.ws/404/mesario/voluntario/

MY ERROR LOGS WERE SHOWING ABOUT 80 OF THIS ERROR:

[21-Feb-2009 19:29:29] WordPress database error Can't find FULLTEXT index matching the column list for query SELECT ID, post_title, post_content,MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST ('images spring_flavour corner_bottom_r ight gif') AS score FROM wp_1_posts WHERE MATCH (post_name, post_content) AGAINST ('images spring_flavour corner_bottom_r ight gif') AND post_date <= '2009-02-21 19:29:29' AND (post_status IN ( 'publish', 'static' )) AND post_password ='' ORDER BY score DESC LIMIT 6 made by require, require_once, include, aa_google_404, aa_related_posts_404

I just updated to 4.5.2.2. At first it did not work but after re-entering my API key it did. The results are not IN the page anymore but BELOW. Any idea how to fix this? See i.e.:
http://www.eenmanierom.nl/some-evernote-page-that-doesn't-exist/

I remember fiddling around for hours with something like this last time and the options of the plugin have changed so I though instead of fiddling several hours I'll try my luck here first :-)

Thanks in advance,

Patrick Mackaaij

Ver 4.6.2.2 configuration page jumps straight to test results only way to add the Google API is to kill loading of the page. Results page content is kind of spilled all over the rest of the page.

This is very interesting plugin. I have never used this but I am soon going to use this. I am also going to write about this plugin on my blog.

Hey guys,
Love the 404 plugin. It was easy to install and simple to customize to match my wordpress theme.

I did find one small error in the version 4.6.2.2. In the line of PHP code given at the top of the settings page, there was a missing "?" just before the final ">". Easy fix on this end, but I wanted to help out and say thanks at the same time.

Thanks for the info! This helped me out!

I still use this plugin on my blog, it was real easy to get going as I remember.

My google webmaster tools is saying "Verification status: NOT VERIFIED".

When I press verify it comes up with "We've detected that your 404 (file not found) error page returns a status of 200 (Success) in the header"

This plugin works perfectly for me but at the top of the 404 page, this line appears:

ob_start_detected

Can you tell me how can I remove it? I have checked the plugin code but could not find it. I'm using WordPress 2.8.1.

Great plugin, thanks. Have installed on my blog

Thanks for a great plugin! I'm really pleased with this approach vs. the staid, headline-only errors I had been returning.

A note for those having problems with this plug-in repeating its content at the bottom of the page: It appears that in some cases, if your theme has a 404 page, the plug-in sends the results twice. You can fix it with the code changes I note here.

Hi,

I use WPMU divided into several sites and I need centralised 404 handling. If I use your plugin, will it be ok if I just install it for the master (main domain name) blog, or do I need to install it for every separate blog?

Cheers,
Piotr

Hello! This plugin is great! It works more or less fine now. Unfortunately there are two problems remaining. The related posts output doesn't seem to work. But that's no issue. I could disable the feature. The second problem is, that the general output is doubled:

How can i fix this?

having any issue with the plugin , it works fine however i get the following http://gallery.dustyhawk.com/albums/userpics/404heat1.jpg .

Any ideas or suggestion ?

Thanks AskApache - I really like this plugin.

However, the HTML results appear twice on the page. This occurs even the aa_google_404 function is the only line on the 404.php template.

What happens is the 404 Plugin renders normally - functionally, it does exactly what it's supposed to do. When it gets to the end, it reprints everything in the HTML section of the Plugin Settings. If I check the source, I see tags where they should be, but the 404 Plugin code is repeated below the closing .

I'd love to hear if this has happened to any of you, and what you did to fix it. Cheers!

-Erin

Works fantastic! Thanks so much. Plugin is light and simple. but very robust!

Latest version AA404 is *really* nice - Thanks ! :)

@ Jörg Schüler

I had similar issues. Save this code as /wp-content/themes/inove/404.php (remember to make a backup of the original '404.php' file):

Good luck!

I think its error, I can click on save button.
Iam using Version 4.7.2.2 and wp 2.8.4.

Any suggestion ??

I don't see any options or boxes? and I Clicked the top-right "screen options" then click the "2" under "Number of Columns", etc, but no works.

I recently upgraded to Wordpress 3.0

In the process I have been having trouble getting the 404 Google page to work. When I go into the plugin to activate it I am unable to save the change. If you can tell me what entry to update in the DB I would be happy to manually change that if necessary.

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Here is what I am getting:

Message: 'postboxes' is undefined
Line: 465
Char: 106
Code: 0
URI: http://SITE/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=askapache-google-404.php
 
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THAT ERROR MESSAGE is referring to this line of code:
 
var codepress_path = "http://SITE/wp-includes/js/codepress/";jQuery(document).ready(function($){postboxes.add_postbox_toggles("askapachegoogle");});
 
And the character space 106 is this SECTION OF THAT CODE
 
{postboxes.add_postbox_toggles("askapachegoogle");}
 
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Somewhere along the line the CODEPRESS file folder under admin was eliminated. I don't know if it was with a plugin I uninstalled, etc., but it was no longer there. I copied it back from an older backup of my site but I still get the same message and the same reference.

Your help would be GREATLY appreciated...

Is anyone having problems with the newest version (4.8.0)?
After activating and clicking on "AA Google 404" under settings, I'm getting the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function set_current_screen() in /home/twitter/public_html/wp-content/plugins/askapache-google-404/askapache-google-404.php on line 232

Any thoughts?
Khal

Hi There,

I would like to modify the CSS and/or Javascript so that the Video and Image search results to not display but I can't quite figure out which Divs those are placed into. Could someone point me in the right direction please? Maybe in future releases in the admin panel you could have check boxes to select what elements you want displayed instead of making the users modify the code themselves. Otherwise, this is a great plugin.

Thanks,
Geoff

I have just installed this plugin on my website and the intentions of the plugin seems to be doing everything I need... At the moment my website does not have much content, but I do have two blog articles.

Now when I enter "wordpress" the resulting 404 page shows: Googles Best Bid (0). There are no results from my website here and neither in the first tab "onlinekonsulenten.dk". However, in the second tab "Blog" there are two results from my website - both from the same article on page-templates.

Now my question is: How come that not one of the two results is shown as "Googles Best Bid", since these are matches from my website?

If I have to do it myself - what is then needed for adding one (e.g. the first) result from the "Blog" tab to the "Googles Best Bid"?

Thanks for an otherwise great plugin.

I installed your "update" and now I cant get to my admin panel!

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare set_current_screen() (previously declared in /www/wp-content/plugins/askapache-google-404/askapache-google-404.php:63) in /www/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 3948

WTF?!

The only way I was able to access my admin pages was to delete this plugin from the plugins directory via ftp. Now everything works fine, but I have to use my default 404 page, which is better than not being able to admin my site.

Why does the css editor not work? I even tried changing the css file direct, then ftp and still no changes. Im also using Firebug and can't locate where these css codes are located. I'm trying to alter the colors to fit my website on my 404 error page and the google widget can't be customized for the colors.

Can anyone tell me how to find the gsc-tabHeader gsc-tabhActive elements to change? Firebug says its on line 367 but the css file only has less than 30. I'm assuming this is from the file called orig.css and not the admin.css

4.8.2.2 working in WP 3.01 :)

It's pushing my sidebar down. changing the CSS did not change anything as my sidebar was still pushed down. Read that others have the same problems. Deactivating it now until the sidebar issue has been resolved. Hope to hear from you soon. I am using version 4.8.2.2

Thanks and have a nice day!

I have been unable to verify Google to the AskApache Search Engine Verify plugin. I am not sure what Authorization key it is asking for.
I have tried using the verification key that I used in Google Webmaster Tools to verify my site there but
when I add it to the plugin setup page it is not working.

What am I not understanding here?

Thank you,

Trish

Love the plugin, but the Admin seems to have several 404 errors in the CSS file looking for images that simply do not exist.

Hello again

I think I got one complaint about this plugin. Each time you deactivate it and at a later time activate it again, you have to re-do all the settings you once set.

It doesn't store the settings into the db like most plugin do why?

Thank you very much. It really works, thank you again.

What Google API key we need now? I believe "google ajax search api" is now deprecated so it leave the 404 page blank and empty. The update don't have changelog to see what's the update is all about, does it fix in the update?