Silly for sure. To think that Google would demote a brand that has been around for over a decade like that.
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RE: 75% Overnight Drop in Organic Search Trafficposted in Algorithm Updates
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RE: Can Anyone help me with Google search console soft 404 error?posted in Reporting & Analytics
I recently solved a problem where about 85 URLs were falsely flagged as Soft 404s. The solution can be found here https://moz.com/community/q/false-soft-404s-shadow-bans-and-old-user-generated-content.
In my case I just had to change the URLs of the pages. If you try to get Google to validate a fix and your URL still shows up as a soft 404, you might want to just change the URL, submit a sitemap with the new URL in it, and 301 the old one.