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SEO 200 codes to 404 errors.
The website displays 200 OK codes even when a page is not there and should return 404 error codes.
The website do not follow the html standards.
This could get lower rankings.
Technical output:
Warning: We should get 404 here, but it was OK... Strange
[trying to get “random” URL and check if it gives us 404 code]
Why should I return 404 instead of 200 when the user doesn't see it?
The result code is not returned for the user. The result code is for the software accessing the server. For a normal browser, it doesn't make much of a difference if it gets 404 or 200, but for a search engine it makes a world of a difference.
As everyone has seen, there are lots of bad URLs in all search engines. When a search engine crawls a URL and receives the result code 200 then it thinks the content is valid and will try to add it to the index. When it gets a 404 it know that the URL is no longer valid and will remove it (sooner or later, mostly later :-)). Can you see where this is heading? When a search engine tries to access a URL which no longer exists and your server returns the cusom error page with result code 200, then the search engine thinks that this is the content of that URL and will try to add it like that into the index. That's not a good thing.
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