{"id":963968,"date":"2015-05-20T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/soft-404-errors-in-google\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:06:42","slug":"soft-404-errors-in-google","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/soft-404-errors-in-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft 404 Errors in Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve consulted the forums and have found a lot of other people are also having problems with Google errors showing up in Webmaster Tools. I&#8217;ve tried every fix I can think of, from editing my robots.txt file, adding 301 redirects, editing calendar settings, adding theist SEO plugin and telling it to not crawl my calendar or add calendar events to the XML sitemap &#8211; you name it. But these errors persist and I&#8217;m getting bummed out.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;ve got about 100 errors, and they are all like this:<\/p>\n<p>URL: http:\/\/kcpetproject.org\/events\/1837-07\/<\/p>\n<p>Error details:<\/p>\n<p>Linked from:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/kcpetproject.org\/events\/1837-06\/<\/p>\n<p>Last crawled: 5\/17\/15<br \/>\nFirst detected: 5\/17\/15<\/p>\n<p>The target URL doesn&#8217;t exist, but your server is not returning a 404 (file not found) error. Learn more<br \/>\nYour server returns a code other than 404 or 410 for a non-existent page (or redirecting users to another page, such as the homepage, instead of returning a 404). This creates a poor experience for searchers and search engines.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why I even have a page coming up for &#8220;Events for July 1837&#8221;!!!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/kcpetproject.org\/events\/1837-07\/<\/p>\n<p>Please help me get it taken care of once and for all, as I use this plugin for a lot of my sites. 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