Benefits of creating a custom 404 error page in WordPress

Any link that doesn’t lead anywhere is known as a ‘dead link’ or ‘broken link’. The HTTP status code for a missing page is 404 and is often referred to as ‘error 404’, ‘HTTP 404’, or ‘404 code’.  You will have experienced this at some time whilst surfing the net: instead of getting the site or page you want, an error pops up indicating that the requested page is not available.
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6 Benefits of having a Blog on your Website

A question we are often asked is: “If you start a business blog, should it be hosted on your own website?”

The short answer to that is YES! Absolutely. Hosting a blog on your own business website is very important. If you host it elsewhere, such as on a free blogging platform like WordPress.com, this will eliminate many of the benefits of having a blog for your business. While hosting a blog separately to your business website is better than not having one at all, you’ll see that many of the benefits we outline below can only be achieved if your blog is hosted on your own domain.

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