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  • #766143

    I got an email from Google Webmaster Tools saying my site has too many soft-404 errors. How can I go about fixing these issues and preventing them in the future? Thanks!

    #766970

    Hey kieranvyas,

    Here is an article on the issue.

    If you need further assistance please let us know.

    Best regards,
    Victoria

    #767011

    Thanks for your reply. All my crawl erros are searches without any search terms. See private content for an example of a soft 404 error google has flagged. All of the crawl errors are urls that work but with ‘?s=’ at the end.

    #768226

    Hi,

    do you get those errors when using a default WP theme as well?

    Best regards,
    Andy

    #768388

    Sorry Andy I only use the Enfold theme so I don’t know

    #768850

    Hi,

    then switch temporarily to a default WP theme for testing purposes and let us know about your results.

    Best regards,
    Andy

    #769453

    How do I test for crawl errors?

    #770014

    Hi,

    please refer to:

    and:

    Hope this helps to make things clear in your case.

    Best regards,
    Andy

    #770071

    Hi Andy, that sounds like the perfect solution! Thank you. Please can you just help me with the formatting of my robot.txt. I’ve added the code to my robot.txt and it now looks like this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /search
    Disallow: /*?s=

    Is this right? Thank you!

    #770561

    Hi,

    Your code looks right to me, did you try it out? If not you could try something like this:

    User-agent: *
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Disallow: /search
    Disallow: /*?s=

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    #771161

    Brilliant thank you!

    #771552

    Hi,

    Glad we could help :-)

    Please let us know if you should need any further help on the topic or if we can close it.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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