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  1. #1
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    What does soft 404 error mean?

    I see this quiet often in SEO discussions, blog posts, etc.

    Soft 404 error

    But what does that really mean? Is there an hard 404 too? How are these different?

  2. #2
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    Hello Friends,
    A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200 (success) status code. In some cases, it might be a page with little or no content (for example, a sparsely populated or empty page). ... A success status code tells search engines that there's a real page at that URL.

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    Soft 404 is a URL returning a page that tells the user not to exist the page and also a status code of 200 (success). It may be a page with little or no content in some circumstances (for example, a sparsely populated or empty page).

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    A soft 404 error isn't an official response code sent to a web browser. It's just a label Google adds to a page within their index.

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