Can 404 and soft 404s errors affect your Google search rankings? According to Google, the answer is no. However, there is an exception you will want to know about, in ...
In a Google Office Hours podcast, Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about 404 Page Not Found errors that coincided with a drop in rankings. There are ...
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video today explaining the difference in how Google handles 404 and 410 error status codes. Both 404 and 410s are ...
Ever see a spike in the 404 errors reported in Google Search Console's crawl error report? Especially from URLs that have been 404ed for ages? Well, it can happen ...
A Google Webmaster Help thread brings up a common question I see from webmasters, publishers and SEOs - why does Google Webmaster Tools continuously show old 404 pages in Webmaster Tools when those ...
These bugs lead to some pages being removed from the Google search results or the stars being removed from the Google search results. Google has confirmed it is fixing two search related bugs that ...
The Internet Archive has released a Wayback Machine extension for Chrome that will automatically take users to an archived copy when they hit a dead webpage. Once ...