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Soft 404 errors #91
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Description
App returns "soft 404" errors for missing pages. A soft 404 is a URL that returns a page telling the user that the page does not exist and also a 200 (success) status code. It returns a page with little content, namely a menu bar, and items.
Returning a success status code rather than 404 (not found) is a bad practice. A success status code tells search engines that there's a real page at that URL. As a result, the page may be listed in search results, and search engines will continue trying to crawl that non-existent URL instead of spending time crawling real pages.
https://app.moneytracker.cc/broken/url returns following page:
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https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/soft-404-errors?visit_id=637772503729817225-2301542019&rd=1
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