How to Handle a Soft 404 error to an admin page in WordPress

[aj613]

I'm seeing this error on Google Webmaster Console:

| URL: | http://www.awlwildlife.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php |

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| Error details | Linked from | |

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| Last crawled: 11/15/16First detected: 11/15/16

The target URL doesn't exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more

Your server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.

More information about "soft 404" errors |

Any ideas what I should do about it?

Thanks!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Adam,

Yes, as you're using WordPress and this page doesn't provide any content to a search engine anyway (it's your WP Admin). Make sure you add an extra line to your robots.txt file like this:

Disallow: /wp-admin/*

This will make sure GSC and Moz tools won't look at pages on this URL structure at all which is basically what you want here.

Hope this helps!

[aj613]

Thanks Martijn and Christy!