Blank or “Not Found” pages that do not return

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At the beginning of the free subscription you will receive a daily email to get you fit in SEO - for 5 days. Over 83,000 subscribers trust us. Click here for the registration form. panda group © Hung_Chung_Chih / Istockphoto What happened? Since October 24th New types of pages are displayed in Google Webmaster Tools under “Crawling Errors” –> “Soft-404”. Namely: Tag pages (some) Search results pages without content (search for “XY” not found) Blank author pages User profile pages in forums.


Pages with very little content (just a few words/sentences and empty India Car Owner Phone Number List HTML pages) Interesting: For one domain, only blocked (= banned from the forum) members appeared as a soft 404 as user profile pages. And super interesting: A thin content page that we checked did not return a soft 404 as a response code, but rather a 503. Also on October 24th. However, the “correct” status codes are always 200. What are Soft 404 Errors? A web page that contains no content (empty article pages, “product not found” pages, or empty categories) should usually also be marked with a 404 status code from the server side (in the response header).  a 404 status code are so-called “soft 404” pages.



The content of the page is unrelated to the HTTP response code sent by the server. Google says: “Returning a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page such as the home page instead of returning a 404) is problematic. On the one hand, it tells search engines that there is a real page at this URL. Therefore, this URL can be crawled and the associated content indexed. Due to the time Googlebot spends on nonexistent pages, your unique URL may not be discovered as quickly or visited as frequently. Additionally, your website's crawl coverage may be affected. You also certainly don’t want your site to rank high for the search query [ file not found.