Soft 404 in Search Console

[abisti2]

Search console is showing quite a lot of soft 404 pages on my site, but when I click on the links, the pages are all there. Is there a reason for this?

It's a pretty big site - I'm getting 141 soft 404s from about 20,000 pages

[Mustansar]

HI
this could be potenailly your server. When you server returns the response code 200 on those pages.

Soft 404s can limit a site’s crawl coverage by search engines because these duplicate URLs may be crawled instead of pages with unique content.” Google added tips for 404 pages

Here you can get complete guide for this issue: http://searchengineland.com/google-webmaster-tools-adds-soft-404-pages-43748

[abisti2]

Hi Ikkie

That's great & very helpful - many thanks