July 28, 20215 yr Hi all Im having an issue with a growing number of Soft 404 errors on our site. Despite a record year for us last year in terms of traffic, we first started seeing these errors from 1st May last year where it jumped from 0 soft 404 errors to 77 pages with these errors, literally overnight. We've been a little slow in responding to these and we've currently got half of our pages now with this error (126 Pages). Our webdev / SEO company have looked at the errors and have rewritten a few of the pages with new content in a bid to remedy the issue but Google still does not want to know. We cant get our heads around it as the usual reasons for Soft 404 dont seem to apply given Google response to our attempts at a fix but obviously there is something lurking somewhere which we simply cannot see. The worrying thing is that we're now pretty much at a stage where we are 50% of our pages are now marked as having a soft 404 error. As a business that solely relies on page rankings its quite the concern. Could anyone offer any advice or experience on a similar matter? Thanks in advance Ste Edited July 28, 20215 yr by Sunstone
July 28, 20215 yr While the only experience I've had of it was a page discussing 404s on this blog, from my understanding, it was an error with Google classification - which should have been fixed: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-soft-404-issues-removed-classifier-31807.html Hopefully you may see some improvements soon?
July 28, 20215 yr Author 16 minutes ago, Rich C said: While the only experience I've had of it was a page discussing 404s on this blog, from my understanding, it was an error with Google classification - which should have been fixed: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-soft-404-issues-removed-classifier-31807.html Hopefully you may see some improvements soon? Thanks for the link and your reply. Hopefully, given a little time this might work itself out. Cheers
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