Can 404 and soft 404s errors affect your Google search rankings? According to Google, the answer is no. However, there is an exception you will want to know about, in ...

If you use Google Calendar to track your crazy busy schedule, you may have trouble doing so from your computer this morning. Users from around the world are reporting ...

Maybe it stays soft-404 & gets crawled (not great, not terrible). Category redirect: URL doesn't get indexed. Potentially a short-term support for the category page, but still confusing to users. (If ...

Google’s John Mueller recently provided some guidance with regards to invalid URLs on a website. An invalid URL should return a 404 error so it’s clear to Google ...

Google changed how it handles soft 404 detection and classifications, John Mueller, a Google Search Relations Advocate, confirmed this morning. The search company now looks at each page by device type ...

Over the past several days, I think starting around April 9th, Google made some change to how it detects soft 404s and that change may be causing ranking issues for some sites in Google Search. A soft ...