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Soft 404 Google Soft 404 Bug Citation Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an ongoing problem on Google’s side related to soft 404 error response code and how it’s handled. It’s because of a change on Google’s side. Soft 404 A 404 error response code is a code that is sent by a web page to the web browser or to Google informing them that the page they were looking for no longer exists. Advertisement Continue Reading Below A server response code known as a 200 Response Code is a… Source link

Google’s John Mueller says it’s normal if 30-40% of URLs in a site’s Search Console report are returning 404 errors. This is stated during the Google Search Central SEO hangout from February 25, where we also learned it’s impossible to stop Google from trying to crawl URLs that no longer exist. Google may continue trying to crawl URLs years after they’ve been deleted from a website, and there’s nothing site owners can do to prevent that from happening. Therefore 404s are… Source link