Google’s John Mueller answered an interesting question about what actually happens after clicking the “validate a fix” link in Search Console if the 404 status still exists. John Mueller explained ...

Google's Gary Illyes warns of soft 404 errors' impact on web crawling and recommends proper error handling to improve SEO and site efficiency. Soft 404 errors mislead ...

According to Gary, soft 404s are bad because they (1) limit crawl budget and (2) the pages won't likely show up in Google Search. Gary wrote on LinkedIn wrote, "Crawlers have lots of resources, they ...

The “Page with redirect” error in Google Search Console shows a page on your website is redirected to a different URL when ...

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary Illyes from ...

The first time I saw the “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” error in Google Search Console, I gulped. “Oh, no. Please, not this.” Then I saw it again ...