Soft 404
A soft 404 is a page that shows an error or no real content but returns a 200 OK status instead of a true 404. Search engines may keep the empty URL indexed, wasting crawl budget, so missing pages should return a genuine 404 or 410.
A soft 404 is a page that shows an error or no real content but returns a 200 OK status instead of a true 404. Search engines may keep the empty URL indexed, wasting crawl budget, so missing pages should return a genuine 404 or 410.