Should i redirect error pages to index
 

Should i redirect error pages to index just wondering if there would be a negative to this

im using
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL=http://mysite.com/">
on 404,401,400,403,500

I redirect my error pages back to the index.

On other sponsor oriented sites I redirect to the sponsor.

Cheers i did not think about redirecting to sponsor

Could that not get your page in a loop, to send back to the index ?

I think that would only happen if your index page was 404ing

so im using 404 Redirected with wordpress and that does not work

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Redirecting errors to index is bad idea,could cause server crash one day when some chinese will hotlink your images/videos whatever.Best is to make custom 404 page where you can put link to homepage and also links to other sites as well.

It depends on your site type. For example, if the site is a traffic generator - it's a bad idea to route 404 to index because of fake traffic in your stats.

Redirects for errors should be done with .htaccess...
for performance and security issues! :2 cents:

You should not. You should be logging your 404s (or looking up the URLs in Analytics) then fixing the bad links with 301 redirects. That will make it so the search engines dont follow the bad links. Also you really need to identify why your getting 404s and fix them. They are only hurting your site overall.

What He Said :2 cents:
Amount of work is ten times more but its the best solution.