soft 404 errors on events, venues and organizers

[Jennifer Wilder]

Hi, I read a few previous threads regarding soft 404 errors and based on feedback from Google on my own 12,500 soft 404 errors, Google bots read them as an empty page. When I look up venues, they have the info plus the map and current events.

I have over 1200 events, 440 venues and 381 organizers. Right now I don’t relish the thought of making changes to each one. Going forward is there something I should do when I’m setting them up that wouldn’t result in a 404 error?

Also, I seem to have quite a number of duplicate venues and organizers. Got any thoughts about that, too?

Thank you,
Jennifer

[Jaime Marchwinski]

Hi Jennifer,

Thanks so much for reaching out!

It’s worth noting here that soft 404s may not be a big issue, if they aren’t affecting anything on your site.  I know that you are concerned about your SEO, and that is a common issue.  Please take a look at this Knowledgebase article that we have about this exact issue, to give you some more insight and explanation: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/404_and_seo/

If you are still concerned about seeing these 404s, you may want to explore the settings that you have in your Yoast SEO plugin.  The following forum threads have addressed the same issue and may be able to point you to some ideas about what to try next:

• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/google-crawl-error-increase-in-soft-404-pages/
• https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/soft-404-errors-in-google-continued-in-latest-version-2/

If you are still experiencing the issue, please make sure that your Yoast SEO Plugin and your WordPress version are also up to date.

Let me know if that helps!

 

Thanks,

Jaime

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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