Soft 404 Errors Hurt Ranking Badly

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I have a notice from google about "Possible outages"

Dear owner or webmaster of xxxxxx.net

While crawling your site, we have noticed an increase in the number of transient soft 404 errors around 2014-06-19 05:00 UTC (London, Dublin, Edinburgh). Your site may have experienced outages. These issues may have been resolved. Here are some sample pages that resulted in soft 404 errors:- xxxxxxxxxxx etc


All main keywords for my site have drop ranking badly.Does anyone have this exprience also?How to recover ?Advise please.
Thanks for any answer.
#404 #badly #errors #hurt #ranking #soft
  • Profile picture of the author Broseph
    A soft 404 page is a page that returns 200 status code, instead of 404 page not found. Make sure you have a 404 status code in the header (talk to a developer if needed). It could also be a database error, so you should contact your hosting.
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