First, you should try some generic solutions, such as checking the internet connection, reviewing your firewall and antivirus settings, restarting the Chrome browser ...

Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about which is less worse to use, millions of 404 error pages or 301 redirects. Gary’s answer cleared the air about how ...

Several months ago Google told us that returning a "results not found" type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results. The same ...

Can 404 and soft 404s errors affect your Google search rankings? According to Google, the answer is no. However, there is an exception you will want to know about, in ...

Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status codes. Both 404 and 410s are ...

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 ...