404 and other error traffic is something that every webmaster has and not many seem to do anything with. It may seem insignificant, but I can assure you there’s money to be made!
It seems alot of bloggers just leave the default wordpress 404 page – “Error 404 – Not Found” or something to that effect. Or with other types of sites and even worse, not having any 404 page whatsoever!
Up until recently I used to dump my 404 traffic to a fake TGP. I’ve now switched over to Weg Cash’s niched Tube4Free sites which payout up to $2 per free signup. It hasn’t been long enough to come to any conclusive decision but what is certain is that it’s making money.
So how do you set something like this up? Simple…
Wordpress
Go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php and find the file 404.php In this file you want to put the following piece of code.
<?php
header('Location: http://site-to-redirect-to.com');
?>
Other types of sites
Open up your .htaccess file and add the following lines.
ErrorDocument 400 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 401 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 403 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 404 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
ErrorDocument 500 http://site-to-redirect-to.com
It’s not alot of work and it’s extra money in your pocket that you’d otherwise be throwing away. So try it out and you might be pleasantly surprised with the results.