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Are these pages being served up as 404s ? If not, that sucks. If yes, why would Google diligently index a 404 and strongly rank it?
by Maciek416 17y ago
Are these pages being served up as 404s ? If not, that sucks. If yes, why would Google diligently index a 404 and strongly rank it?
- madars 17y agoUnfortunately they are served as 200 OKs (see http://tinyurl.com/yzca7ec http://tinyurl.com/yzca7ec)
- wgj 17y agoWhich is spam, even if well intended.
- pyre 17y agoI'm not really 'up' on involved rules with respect to web programming / interfacing with Apache, but is it standard practice to return a 404 when your search finds no hits? Technically it's not a 'page not found.'
- ars 17y agoIt would require extra programming, so is not done unless you think of it/get a special request for it. Should you use a 404? I could see arguments both ways. A "no results" result, is still a result. So it's not a 404. I would do a 404 if you try to link to a product that does not exist, but not for a zero results found page. BTW madars don't use url shorteners here - even for really long ones.
- keltex 17y agoIt really should have a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> in the header. That's the proper way to not allow a page to be indexed.
- whatusername 17y agoGoogle doesn't, so I'm not sure that they can hold it against others.
- tedunangst 17y agoWhen you search google for some random term that doesn't exist, does it send back a 404? No.