Possible Outages - Soft 404 0r 410 Errors

Discussion in 'Google' started by alokseo, Nov 18, 2012.

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    Today I had some message in Google webmaster forum about Possible Outages.

    While crawling your site, we have noticed an increase in the number of transient soft 404 errors around 2012-10-01 02:00 UTC (London, Dublin, Edinburgh). Your site may have experienced outages.

    I want to know what is possible outage and how to solve it.
     
    alokseo, Nov 18, 2012 IP
  2. alokseo

    alokseo Active Member

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    Finally i have find out the answer
    404 is the default when a page is gone when an attempt is made to access it, and is what will normally be returned. To have a 410 returned by the server when a page is removed, a simple entry in .htaccess will return that specific error code. The format is:
    Redirect gone removedfile.html
    Or
    Redirect gone /removedfile/
    Or
    Redirect gone /directory/removedfile.html
    For more information, About Soft 404 errors
     
    alokseo, Nov 18, 2012 IP
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    imfusa Active Member

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    Yep, just add a 301 redirect and your done.
     
    imfusa, Nov 19, 2012 IP