Glossary
What Is a Soft 404?
A soft 404 is a page that returns a 200 OK status code despite having thin, missing, or error-like content that functionally behaves like a dead page.
Soft 404s are flagged as a Google Search Console coverage issue because they waste crawl budget and can confuse indexing — the fix is usually a true 404/410 or a redirect, not more content.
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