how to solve ” soft 404”?

Hello Kent,

Thanks for your question about soft 404 errors.

A soft 404 occurs when a page exists but has an empty ‘content area’. For example, a category page with no posts, or any other page where there is very little useful content available. The page, https://sindustrials.com/wpbits-afe-templates/ fits that description.

You don’t want Googlebot to spend time trying to see what’s on soft 404 pages. Therefore, we’d recommend you add content to these pages, noindex them or exclude them from the XML sitemap. Once you’ve made the needed changes, please resubmit your sitemap to Google Search Console. These help articles will give more pointers:

– https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-noindex-urls/
– https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/#taxonomy

Hi,

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