Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Google Search Console Verified Sites Do Not Get Crawled More
Google’s John Mueller was asked if sites that are verified with Google Search Console get crawled more often or at a higher priority. The answer is no, “crawling is independent of Search Console,” John said.
Google: Pages That Look Like Error Pages Can Be Considered Soft 404s
Several months ago Google told us that returning a “results not found” type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results. The same is true for “Sorry we don’t deliver to this location” or other negative and error looking pages.
