Soft 404 for missing pages Search Engine Guideline

Description

To prevent 404 pages being indexed by search engines, make sure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code instead of a 200 OK status code when a missing page is requested.

Applicable standards

• Google SEO Starter Guide
• Bing

Change history

• 4.1 Aug 2010 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: SeoBroken404Handler