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Do soft 404 errors affect my SEO ranking?

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Question added by Mahmoud Ghazal , Senior Agile Project Manager , Telstra
Date Posted: 2013/10/24

Yeah definitely it affects ranking and also our time.

Amarjeet Sharma
by Amarjeet Sharma , Chief Digital Officer , Karmasthal Healthtech P Ltd

Yes, is the answer and definetely if you have it in large numbers.

 

Let me quote Google from the  Webmaster Blog :

"We discourage the use of so-called "soft404s" because they can be a confusing experience for users and search engines. Instead of returning a404 response code for a non-existent URL, websites that serve "soft404s" return a200 response code. The content of the200 response is often the homepage of the site, or an error page."

Source : Google Webmaster Blog on Soft404

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