Have you guys seen any good 404s?Yes, we have! (Confession: no one asked us this question, but few things are as fun to discuss as response codes. :) We've put together a list of some of our favorite 404 pages. If you have more 404-related questions, let us know, and thanks for joining us for 404 week!http://www.metrokitchen.com/nice-404-page"If you're looking for an item that's no longer stocked (as I was), this makes it really easy to find an alternative."-Riona, domestigeekhttp://www.comedycentral.com/another-404"Blame the robot monkeys"-Reid, tells really bad jokeshttp://www.splicemusic.com/and-another"Boost your 'Time on site' metrics with a 404 page like this."-Susan, dabbler in music and Analyticshttp://www.treachery.net/wow-more-404s"It's not reassuring, but it's definitive."-Jonathan, has trained actual spiders to build websites, ants handle the 404shttp://www.apple.com/iPhone4g"Good with respect to usability."http://thcnet.net/lost-in-a-forest"At least there's a mailbox."-JohnMu, adventuroushttp://lookitsme.co.uk/404"It's pretty cute. :)"-Jessica, likes cute thingshttp://www.orangecoat.com/a-404-page.html"Flow charts rule."-Sahala, internet travellerhttp://icanhascheezburger.com/iz-404-page"I can has useful links and even e-mail address for questions! But they could have added 'OH NOES! IZ MISSING PAGE! MAYBE TIPO OR BROKN LINKZ?' so folks'd know what's up."-Adam, lindy hop geek
Rob Laporte on 26 Oct 08After 12 long months of brainstorming, testing, developing, and analyzing, the wait is finally over. Today, I'm ecstatic to announce some very big developments here at SEOmoz. They include: * An Index of the World Wide Web - 30 billion pages (and growing!), refreshed monthly, built to help SEOs and businesses acquire greater intelligence about the Internet's vast landscape * Linkscape - a tool enabling online access to the link data provided by our web index, including ordered, searchable lists of links for sites & pages, and metrics to help judge their value. * A Fresh Design - that gives SEOmoz a more usable, enjoyable, and consistent browsing experience * New Features for PRO Membership - including more membership options, credits to run advanced Linkscape reports (for all PRO members), and more. Since there's an incredible amount of material, I'll do my best to explain things clearly and concisely, covering each of the big changes. If you're feeling more visual, you can also check out our Linkscape comic, which introduces the web index and tool in a more humorous fashion: Check out the Linkscape Comic SEOmoz's Index of the Web For too long, data that is essential to the practice of search engine optimization has been inaccessible to all but a handful of search engineers. The connections between pages (links) and the relationship between links, URLs, and the web as a whole (link metrics) play a critical role in how search engines analyze the web and judge individual sites and pages. Professional SEOs and site owners of all kinds deserve to know more about how their properties are being referenced in such a system. We believe there are thousands of valuable applications for this data and have already put some effort into retrieving a few fascinating statistics: * Across the web, 58% of all links are to internal pages on the same domain, 42% point to pages off the linking site. * 1.83%
