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    • SamCUK
      SamCUK last edited by

      I have a soft 404 problem in webmaster tools for http://www.musicliveuk.com/about/feed and I'm not sure why. I read on here that if it is a main content page it should be fixed but I don't know how. I've tried to 301 redirect the page to http://www.musicliveuk.com/about/ but the redirect doesn't appear to be working? how do I fix this?

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      • Maximise
        Maximise last edited by

        Hi Samuel,

        The redirect seems to be in place. Paste your URL, http://www.musicliveuk.com/about/feed, into this tool: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

        You will see that the page is being 301 redirected to your about page. Webmaster Tools can take a while to update.

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        • mediabase
          mediabase last edited by

          Hi Samuel, First of all I want to tell you that 404 Error page is about the  "Page not found" i.e error page is  displayed whenever we tried to access a page  & that page  was not in the website.

          For this problem we had to display the message that "404 Error Page not found . After that we had to redirect to the homepage  or simply put the homepage link

          Samuel here is the solution to fix this 404 soft error.

          Google Fix this Soft 404 Error .

          For more details on how to fix the soft 404 error please vist the below link also:

          google-webmaster-tools-adds-soft-404-pages

          I hope that your query had been solved.

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