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The new update to TEC Version 4.3.1.1 has fixed the 500 Error on my site.

Thanks for the update.

Eric

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I have the same issue. Events Calendar Pro installed okay. However, the base plug-in Events Calendar has a problem. To restore the site using this plug-in, you will need a WordPress tool to deactivate the plug-in. Your site will come back up. I am sure someone will update the plug-in soon. My compete Calendar is not working due to this update.

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Thanks, I do not want to create any more soft 404s. Glad I asked before I installed.

You recommend that I use /list/ in the permalink. I am guessing you are talking about my event permalinks. They are setup so that the next five Events show up in a column on the Home page. The Events on the page are based on dates entered in the WordPress Admin Events section. The permalinks here are directed to a specific date on a calendar or /all for recurring events. I do not change these permalinks much from what is offered when I sent of the Event. I do not know how /list/ will provide me a link to the Event. It is a way to get a list. I not following the logic of where this would be used on this site.

You suggestion on current results is the way the links are now.

I marked all the data with Google as fixed. I will see what comes back after the site is crawled.

The issue here is again the massive number of reported errors in a short period of time. And nothing has be determined as to a specific solution or reason.

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I found a forum page indicating that there is patch for soft 404s. This is available while a solution is integrated into a future release. I do not know if this has been integrated in a release. The patch is located at http://m.tri.be/no404s. Is this something I should install as a solution?

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I am not following some of this logic or terms you are using.

You indicate that where I am using /upcoming/ I should be updating /list/. I am not following this. I have no links using /list/. So, I am not sure what this applies to or where this is used.

The event …/event/knitting-1000-1200/ was a recurring event that ended in December 2015. If it is set to noindex why am I having a problem with this and others showing up on the Goggle Not Found Error Report. Since there are no future events planned, a check of the link reports an error.

All that said, I have many similar events that were recurring and nothing scheduled for the future that do not show u as an error. For my view if there was some consistency in capturing older events and reporting them as hard errors, I would understand the report. But that is not the case.

this is a random selection of older events that are now being seen by Google as errors. When I investigate the url, I get the error code.

While I do understand that the net of this is probably unimportant, I do not know that for certain.

That discernment will only come if I understand why this is happening and if there is something I can do to eliminate this.

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Second, it appears that Event Calendar has created url that returns a hard 404 error and Google sees these urls.

Here is an example:

I created a event last year with a permalink of “/event/knitting-1000-1200/”. Somewhere there is a reference to “all/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=1”. I have no idea where this reference is with in the page structure (not my expertise). This link results in a 404 error. My guess is that it is your coding that created this.

I did look at the suggesting for “Flushing Permalinks”. This site already had the recommended settings.

I have 69 Event Calendar listings like this that are resulting in “Error 404” results.

What can I do to eliminate these results?

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I followed the link for 404 errors. One of the links on that page takes me to a “You’ve been Glomar’d”. Which is nothing related to our discussion.

I am taking the hard errors links and trying to determine the issues.

First, I have an “About” page (/about) with links to Event Calendar for upcoming events with specific Event Categories. To keep results current, I have learned that I create a link that’s something like “events/category/…/upcoming”. I have been using this structure since adding Events Calendar. Now several of these links are 404 errors. They are all using the same structure.

When I roll over the link on the displayed page, the url has “/about” added. If I edit the original link and add the full .com structure, the page displays properly.

I do not know if adding the website portion of the url is a function of Events Calendar or WordPress 4.5.2. I think I saw this once before and Tri.Be had to do an update to correct.

For now I will update all urls, so I can eliminate this issue in future updates to Events Calendar and WordPress (hoping).

[esgudger]

I have reviewed the “Not Found” events and they are Hard 404. Can you help me determine where these url’s are coming from?

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Thanks for adding your perspective to Google’s Help article. I had already reviewed this and the Tri.be KnowledgeBase article. I do understand that the Soft 404 response from Google’s web crawler did not specifically indicate that I have a 404 (“dog”) page.

It appears that the issue is isolated to events and that the issue has increased drastically. From my 2 foot view, this is a problem and it points to The Events Calendar. A review of the comments in the Forum section shows that others have mentioned a similar issue.

While I appreciate the re-enforcement that everything is okay with the Soft 404 response, how do we solve this?

My list is growing daily and at an increasing rate. Google sends me warning and wants me to correct the errors. The theory I am hearing is for me to ignore the warning from Google and not be concerned that this may “impact my search ranking”.

It is difficult for me to know if this will remain a false metric from Google.

What about the “Not Found” response relating to events? A great deal of these are found in my list. I am going through these and marking them as fixed. I am not sure why they are marked as “Not Found”.

I will be professionally disappointed should this not solve my problem and the issue is with Events Calendar.

Any help you can provide me to keep these Soft 404 errors from showing up would be appreciated.

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Here is the Google message

Search Console
Increase in “soft-404” pages on http://www.misspaule.com/
To: Webmaster of http://www.misspaule.com/,
Googlebot identified a significant increase in the number of URLs on http://www.misspaule.com/ that should return a 404 (not found) error, but currently don’t. This can cause a bad experience for your users, who might have been looking for a specific page, but end up elsewhere on your website. This misconfiguration can also prevent Google from showing the correct page in search results.
Recommended Actions:
1 Identify the URLs with errors
Open the Crawl Errors report in your Search Console account to review the list of sample URLs. Check Crawl Errors

2 Fix the issue
Check your server and CMS settings to make sure that these URLs return a 404 (Not Found) or 410 (Gone) HTTP response code in response to requests for non-existent pages. You may need help from your server administrator or hoster for this step.
3 Verify the fix
Once you’ve fixed the URLs with errors, make sure that Googlebot can access and see your content properly, or that they return a proper error result code. You can verify this using Fetch as Google. Fetch as Google

Need more help?
• See the Crawl Errors – Soft 404 Help Center article.
• Ask questions in our forum for more help – mention message type [WNC-655200].

Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043

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Thanks. this worked!

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I had include a url in my original post. All pages in the Shop area are exhibiting the second event link being above and to the left of the event date and time.

You may view a page @ http://www.misspaule.com/shop/grunge-ab-fat-quarter-fabric/ .

Not sure how send you a screenshot as this post does not accept images.

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