How to automatically redirect 404 Error pages to your homepage in Blogger

As a blogger you need to maintain hygiene in your blog so that your site can attract more visitors or can get more traffic. We always ignore 404 errors. 404 error pages (Not Found Errors) are pages on your blog that doesn't exist. If you have deleted some pages or posts of your blog, then your blog visitors will find 404 errors when browsing deleted pages or posts. It is not good for blog visitors, they may feel it is a low quality blog. So blogger gives us the facility to display whatever we want on these error pages.  In this post I will show you how 404 error pages will automatically redirect towards the homepage.

Steps to redirect 404 Error pages to your homepage

1 Sign in to your Blogger account. Go to your blogger dashboard.

2 Now click on Settings --> Search preferences --> click on Edit

3 Paste the following piece of code in the box. Please replace my blog URL with yours.

 <script type = "text/javascript">
window.location="http://www.stephow.com";
</script>

4 Click on Save changes and you are done.

Now whenever your blog visitors will enter a wrong URL or tries to access a broken link, they will be automatically redirected to the homepage.