Hello, I need guidance on resolving an issue in Google Search Console.
It’s reporting some pages as Soft 404 errors, but when I inspect these URLs, they appear to be collection pages, subpages, or pagination pages. Why is Google Search Console flagging them as Soft 404s?
The website is built on Shopify. I’ve noticed that some pages, including those with filter or search parameters, are being incorrectly labeled as Soft 404s. How can I resolve this issue and address the affected URLs in Search Console?
Hope I explain the issue correctly
Soft 404 errors appear most often when there’s missing content, no content, or very little content on a page.
A simple fix is to – open up those pages and mark them as [noindex] so Google doesn’t treat them as 404s. As an alternative, you can use a 301 Redirect on the problematic pages.
Hi @digitalsoftnox
The issue of Soft 404 errors usually appears when the related pages lack the following details:
Missing Server Side Inclusion (SSI) files
Connection to database broken
Empty internal search results page
Unloaded or missing JavaScript file
To resolve Soft 404 errors in Google Search Console, consider using 301 Redirection by redirecting these URLs to 301 URLs (Effective URLs). In this way, these errors will disappear when Google Search Console crawls your website page data in the next period.
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