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    • sdwellers
      sdwellers last edited by

      Google webmaster tools is telling me I have 8 "soft 404's".

      They are all like this page... 
      http://www.seadwellers.com/search/page/8/

      All 8 pages are the same except the number at the end......

      I just can't figure this....any insight at all is appreciated and do i need to correct somehow?

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      • PatrickDelehanty
        PatrickDelehanty last edited by

        Hi there

        Take a look at Google's URL patterns and exclude URLs resources. These are great pieces to help you handle your search URLs and patterns.

        Hope this helps! Good luck!

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        • Martijn_Scheijbeler
          Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

          Patrick is right, usually the soft 404 errors are a sign that your pages are very low quality and probably don't provide anymore information. What I would recommend doing is exclude your search definitely from the bots itself by adding it to your robots.txt file.

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          • sdwellers
            sdwellers @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

            When you say "exclude your search"...do you mean exclude that soft 404 page specifically from the search bots?

            Can you take a quick peek at one of the pages in question...?
            http://www.seadwellers.com/search/page/8/

            There are 8 of them....only diff is the number at end of URL...I am afraid I do not understand how/why it exists?

            Any insight you might have time to give is greatly appreciated...I'm trying to learn.

            Thank you Martijn

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