{"id":4097,"date":"2022-01-04T23:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/google-pages-that-look-like-error-pages-can-be-considered-soft-404s\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T23:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T23:04:53","slug":"google-pages-that-look-like-error-pages-can-be-considered-soft-404s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/google-pages-that-look-like-error-pages-can-be-considered-soft-404s\/","title":{"rendered":"Google: Pages That Look Like Error Pages Can Be Considered Soft 404s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago Google told us that returning a &#8220;results not found&#8221; type of page can result in Google Search considering that page a soft 404 and thus removing it from the search results. 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