In a Webmaster Central Hangout, Google’s John Mueller discussed the reasons why Google crawls non-existent pages and what that meant for your crawl budget. Web publishers would like to see Google ...

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 John Mueller said it again, if you 301 redirect pages that should 404 to your home page, Google will treat them as soft 404s anyway and thus all you are doing is confusing your end users.

Gary called soft 404s and other soft/crypto errors ("Crypto here means "hidden", not what the bros are trying to convince you to invest in," Gary explained.), "the banes of my existence and all other ...