SEO Manager - Add 404 URL
Welcome to this video about SEO Manager for EPiServer.
I'm going to show you how to manage and work with the 404 URLs.
We will start by creating a 404 URL in the SEO Manager admin interface. You just click on "Not Found Pages" and then on "Add URL".
There is a feature in SEO Manager that makes it possible to add metadata to the 404 URL. This metadata can be used to show relevant information for users who arrive to the 404 page. This is done in the fields "Name" and "Value"
Now click on the URL to test it.
You have now arrived at the 404 page. And this is just a demo 404 page to show how it works. This page should be changed by a developer to populate it with relevant information.
As you can see in Fiddler you get the right HTTP status code when you arrive at the 404 page.
Now let's see how this works. Look in the web.config file for your website and locate the node "Mogul". In the child node "Global" you will have one attribute with the name "FileNotFound ". The value for that attribute tells SEO Manager where to redirect URLs marked as 404 URLs.
If I then open up the code behind the 404.aspx page you can see that we are setting the HTTP response status and status code to 404. You can also see how we listen to the meta information sent from the UrlRewriter to get relevant content from the EPiServer system.
When we look at the 404 page again I hope it makes more sense why it's showing 3 pictures of cameras. That is because the system has followed the meta data category=camera and retrieved related content. The user can now click on one of the related contents and get sent back to the website.
More information: http://www.mogul.com/en/seo-manager