Google is reporting 100+ Soft 404 errors
Laura O created the topic: Google is reporting 100+ Soft 404 errors
I received an error from Webmaster Tools this morning stating that Google is reporting 100+ soft-404 errors relating to Spider Calendar. The issue started January 19.
Here's an example:
marblecliff.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?...org/&cat_id&widget=0
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8 years 2 months ago
Agapi G. replied the topic: Google is reporting 100+ Soft 404 errors
Dear Laura,
Could you please copy some of the 404 error reports here, so I can forward them to our developers and ask them to take a look?
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Agapi G.
Web-Dorado team
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8 years 2 months ago
Laura O replied the topic: Google is reporting 100+ Soft 404 errors
Hopefully this works; please let me know if you need them in another format.
URL:
marblecliff.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?...org/&cat_id&widget=0
Error details
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Last crawled: 1/20/16
First detected: 1/20/16
The target URL doesn't exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more
Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.
More information about "soft 404" errors
URL:
marblecliff.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?...t_id&widget=0&rand=1
Error details
Linked from
Last crawled: 1/21/16
First detected: 1/21/16
The target URL doesn't exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more
Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.
More information about "soft 404" errors
URL:
marblecliff.org/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?...org/&cat_id&widget=0
Error details
Linked from
Last crawled: 1/21/16
First detected: 1/21/16
The target URL doesn't exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more
Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.
More information about "soft 404" errors
Thanks, Laura
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8 years 2 months ago
Agapi G. replied the topic: Google is reporting 100+ Soft 404 errors
Dear Laura,
We did some research and here's when Google throws these errors.
All these links are calendar attributes called with AJAX. They don't have <head>, <title> and other HTML elements, so Google thinks they are 404 Not Found pages.
This will not affect to your website indexing, so don't worry about it. However, I have reported a bug to our developers for this case, and we will include better indexing features for these AJAX calls in further updates of Spider Calendar.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Agapi G.
Web-Dorado team
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