Google's Gary Illyes warns of soft 404 errors' impact on web crawling and recommends proper error handling to improve SEO and site efficiency. Soft 404 errors mislead ...

Google's John Mueller explains how Search Console handles 404s, redirects, and site migration issues during reprocessing. Google’s "mark as fixed" doesn’t speed up reprocessing. Proper redirects and ...

According to Gary, soft 404s are bad because they (1) limit crawl budget and (2) the pages won't likely show up in Google Search. Gary wrote on LinkedIn wrote, "Crawlers have lots of resources, they ...

The “Page with redirect” error in Google Search Console shows a page on your website is redirected to a different URL when the user or Googlebot attempts to ...

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from ...