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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
1 week ago

Google On Why 404s Don't Matter For SEO

404: URL doesn't get indexed; it's an invalid URL, so this is fine. Just to be clear: 404s/410s are not a negative quality signal. It's how the web is supposed to work. 410: It's a 404, essentially. Homepage redirect: URL doesn't get indexed. Maybe it stays soft-404 & gets crawled (not great, not terrible). Category redirect: URL doesn't get indexed. Potentially a short-term support for the category page, but still confusing to users.
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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
3 weeks ago

Google JavaScript SEO Docs Now Says Non-200 HTTP Status Code Might Not Be Rendered

Google sends all pages with a 200 HTTP status code to its rendering queue; pages returning non-200 status (for example 404) may have rendering skipped.
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fromHackernoon
7 months ago

Misusing HTTP Status Codes Wrecks Your API Monitoring and Client Logic | HackerNoon

Returning a success status code regardless of application-level errors confuses API consumers.
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