Search Engine Optimization is one of the basic needs of a blog. This is why working hard on every part of your blogger template is very necessarily from using the right keywords to redirecting 404 pages to either homepage or any other page you have designed for it.
Who does such error occur. Once you have published a post, and Google have indexed it, it remains there with Google, so whether you delete it or not it remains there with google and social media networks that you have shared to. As you delete the post, and visitors clink on it either from search engines or social networks, it gives them an error page which will affect your Google rank and SEO.
How To Redirect 404 Error To Homepage
Login to blogger.com >> Located the Settings tab >> Search Engine >> Preference >> Custom page not found.
Sorry for the inconvenience, the page you are looking for has no existence. Wait few sec to go to out HomePage.
<script type = "text/javascript">
ERROR_Redirect = setTimeout(function() {location.pathname= "/"}, 1000);
</script>
Copy the code below and paste it inside the box. The code above, will wait for a second before redirecting the person to the homepage. You can change the message users get by simply replacing the code in red with yours.
How To Redirect To Another Page
Sorry for the inconvenience, the page you are looking for has no existence. Wait few sec to go to out HomePage.
<script type = "text/javascript">
ERROR_Redirect = setTimeout(function() {location.pathname= "Your URL"}, 1000);
</script>
Should in case you have another, page you want to redirect it to, simply placed the code above in the custom page not found box. Also edit to your own desire. Change -Your Url- with your page url.