Difference between 404 Error and soft 404 Error?

Posted by Kevin Hart
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Jul 19, 2024
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MATECO WPC
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WPC Manufacturer

A 404 error is an HTTP status code that indicates that the requested web page or resource cannot be found on the server. It usually occurs when a user tries to access a page that has been deleted, moved or renamed.

On the other hand, a soft 404 error occurs when a server returns a 200 OK status code instead of a 404 error code for a page that does not exist. This can happen when a website's server does not properly return a 404 error code, and instead serves up a page that looks like a 404 erro

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Larisa Albanians
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The primary difference between a “404 Not Found” error and a soft 404 error is the status code. The former has a status code of 404 or 410, which implies that the page cannot be found. With a soft 404 error, the page is still not found. But instead of returning the 404 or 410 code, a “200 OK” code is returned

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