Auto-Generated META tag on 404 Page

[evacuumstoreSEO]

I'm currently creating a 404 error page for my site and I noticed that a similar site uses some sort of code to automatically generate a meta title. Is this useful?

For instance type in electrolux.com/john

This page does not exist but in the title you'll see John | Electrolux

How can i do this on my site?

[MarieHaynes]

I'm not 100% sure on what you are asking, but I do have pages where the title tag or meta description are generated dynamically using a php script.  It's not that hard to do.

In my case, I am getting information from a database and generating the title from what comes from the database.  So, once I have my title I'll insert this in the place of the title tag:

<title><?php echo $title; ?></p> <p>If you're trying to do what the electrolux page does, you can use data from the php $_SERVER info:  <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php">http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php</a></p> <p> </p> <p>But, I'm not sure what purpose it would serve.</p> <p> </p></title>

[ClickConsult]

Hi Tyler,

From an SEO point of view, this is useless and you'd be better spending the time elsewhere.