My website is continually creating Soft 404s, currently redirecting 200+ of them… Every time I clear and publish a few articles, they start to pile up again. Very often, the Soft 404 URL ends in “/?s=”
Do you have any idea what this is, why my site is creating so many of these, and what I can do to prevent going forward? It’s a lot of legwork to fix. Thanks!
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Hey jtuselton,
Please refer to this thread.
If you need further assistance please let us know.
Best regards,
Victoria
Thanks Victoria. It doesn’t seem that a solution was actually come to regarding the issue. It’s a lot to read through so I may have missed something. Doesn’t look like it’s a setting or “Quick Code” issue. Am I correct in saying this?
Hi,
you’re correct.
However, the solution provided by Ismael should work. I guess the issue is not really theme related, as you would have the issue with another WP theme as well.
Best regards,
Andy
Thanks. Just put this in Quick CSS?
I put this in Quick CSS (per the thread) and it changed the font all over my website. Had to take it out.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?s=
Hi!
No, it should be in robots.txt file. For more information please see – https://kriesi.at/support/topic/links-to-404-pages/#post-588813
Cheers!
Yigit
Thanks Yigit, unfortunately I can’t decipher where to find this file in Bluehost. I’m assuming this is a back-end file, yes?