Soft 404 Errors
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Hi,
I am getting into some serious problems regarding the soft 404 errors. I don’t know from where Google is indexing some arbitrary links which are leading into soft errors.
https://www.bamboonutra.com/all-events/category/giving-back/1563-09/
https://www.bamboonutra.com/all-events/category/featured/1920-01/
https://www.bamboonutra.com/all-events/category/giving-back/1563-10/Google Webmaster is showing 400 such type of links.
According to Google
“The target URL doesn’t exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error.
Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.”And yes these links are returning 200 status code which I think is the main reason.
Can you suggest me any idea to how not to make these pages get indexed or if I can pass a 404 status code for these links.
I also tried adding <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,follow,noodp,noydir”> but no luck found.
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