In a recent webmaster help video, Google's Matt Cutts talks about the nuances of 404 vs. 410 status codes. While Google's crawlers treat 404s and 410s nearly identically, Cutts reveals that sometimes ...

Google handles them slightly differently. With a 404, and some of the other 4xx status codes, Google will “protect” the page and not mark it as removed for about 24 hours. With a 410 status ...

On Friday, Lizzi Sassman from Google updated the crawl budget management help document with two more topics. Specifically, Google added two new myths to the crawl budget documentation.

Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. “Please don’t do that,” Gary ...

Learn more about the different HTTP status codes, what they're for, their real-world impact for SEO, and how to determine which codes exist on a website.

A simple solution is to check for the HTTP status code 404 in the response. If found, you can redirect the control to a page that exists.

An overview of the most common WordPress errors, what they are, and how they negatively affect SEO: 404 not found, 500 internal server, 502 bad gateway, 504 gateway timeout.

Even non-developers are familiar with the 404 – Not Found status code. Some Web application users may have been exposed to more arcane (and sometimes scary) messages like 500 – Internal Server ...

A new document from Google explains how HTTP status codes impact a site’s appearance in search results.