Soft 404 errors
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Google webmaster tools is telling me I have 8 "soft 404's".
They are all like this page...
http://www.seadwellers.com/search/page/8/All 8 pages are the same except the number at the end......
I just can't figure this....any insight at all is appreciated and do i need to correct somehow?
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When you say "exclude your search"...do you mean exclude that soft 404 page specifically from the search bots?
Can you take a quick peek at one of the pages in question...?
http://www.seadwellers.com/search/page/8/There are 8 of them....only diff is the number at end of URL...I am afraid I do not understand how/why it exists?
Any insight you might have time to give is greatly appreciated...I'm trying to learn.
Thank you Martijn
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Patrick is right, usually the soft 404 errors are a sign that your pages are very low quality and probably don't provide anymore information. What I would recommend doing is exclude your search definitely from the bots itself by adding it to your robots.txt file.
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Hi there
Take a look at Google's URL patterns and exclude URLs resources. These are great pieces to help you handle your search URLs and patterns.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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