Hi,
Has anyone done any work on converting invalid url (typed by web browser user) into keywords for a PPC search?
Just wondering whether it is possible to do it on the server side, rather than on the client side like those currently done by Yahoo and Microsoft.
Thanks in Advance,
Wilson
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This is a more detail description to what I need to do.
The scenario is this:
A user on his/her web browser typed an url, browser send url to DNS to check and found it to be invalid, and the web browser display a error page to the user.
Instead of the above process flow, is it possible that we could intercept the invalid result from the DNS server, send user typed url as keywords to a search engine, and display the search results to this user?
At the moment we have a javascript which could send keywords to Yahoo, and Yahoo returns a xml file to us and then we customize our own search page.
This is so that we could return it to the user's web browser.
Best Regards,
Wilson
The scenario is this:
A user on his/her web browser typed an url, browser send url to DNS to check and found it to be invalid, and the web browser display a error page to the user.
Instead of the above process flow, is it possible that we could intercept the invalid result from the DNS server, send user typed url as keywords to a search engine, and display the search results to this user?
At the moment we have a javascript which could send keywords to Yahoo, and Yahoo returns a xml file to us and then we customize our own search page.
This is so that we could return it to the user's web browser.
Best Regards,
Wilson
If i'm not mistaken Versign did it as following (and they didn't become exactly popular for doing so):wils wrote: Instead of the above process flow, is it possible that we could intercept the invalid result from the DNS server, send user typed url as keywords to a search engine, and display the search results to this user?
All requests that can't be resolved on the dns server (regularly) or resolved to an ip where a webserver runs.
That webserver than look at the posted/requested data and displays search results, ads, whatever...
As already mentionned, you can also get control over "not-working" links (http status reply != 2xx) by using mod_proxy.