Mario Mansour Blog

A small mistake can waste all your efforts. It could happen to anyone, even large companies like Google. You might have received an email notification about the Google +1 button campaign announcing that the code is now public, just grab it and put it on your website.

You might have even tried to click on the blue button “Get the code!” and just got a 404 Error saying that the requested page was not found.

If you examine carefully the url, you find a typo in the word button which was written with a single “t”

http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/buton/#utm_source=webmasters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=waitlist

Trying to change

http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/buton/

to

http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/

will not solve the problem, as it appears to be located in the 301 redirection rule.

The solution is to type the following url

http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html

Et Voilà..

Now you can grab the code.

How long do you think it will take for Google team to discover the mistake and fix it? Do you think they will resend the email notifications or just make a fix to the wrong url and make it redirect to the correct one?

Update Jun 2, 2011: The link with single “t” is now redirected to the correct url. Case Closed !