What Is Soft 404 Error?

[warrantyau]

What Is Soft 404 Error?

[PoolMaster]

A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200-level (success) code. In some cases, it might be a page with little or no content--for example, a sparsely populated or empty page.

[rscomponentseo]

The 404 HTTP response code indicates that a website's server could not find the page (URL) that was requested by the user, which informs both browsers and search engines that the page doesn't exist. As a result, the content of the page (if any) won't be crawled or indexed by search engines.

[Naksh]

Why waste time in forums when Google can answer such simple questions

[Mithzi Rai]

A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200-level (success) code

[Sojan]

The 404 HTTP response code indicates that a website's server could not find the page (URL) that was requested by the user, which informs both browsers and search engines that the page doesn't exist. As a result, the content of the page (if any) won't be crawled or indexed by search engines.

[godwin]

A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200-level (success) code. In some cases, it might be a page with little or no content--for example, a sparsely populated or empty page.

[juliaalan]

A soft 404 error is not a standard server status code, but a label that search engines add to help them make sense of these pages and to ignore these as they see fit. These errors show up in tools like Google Search Console and you should do your best to fix these.

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[RH-Calvin]

A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200-level (success) code. In some cases, it might be a page with little or no content--for example, a sparsely populated or empty page.

[dombowkett]

Google Webmaster tools start showing 404 error while you delete a webpage without redirecting it.