Technically speaking, 404 pages should not return status 200 codes. The reasoning being that it could be confusing to spiders as they see a page that exists technically have no content. This can affect rankings over time because it is creates massive duplicate content as bots are crawling through the same content over and over again across several URLs.
How to check this?
Go to Google andf type this :
site:example.com/ "page not found"
Lets look at an example of www.ibibo.com
All the results mentioned above are returning results which is not good . So next time when you are analysing any of the website, please make sure you check this seperately.
How to check this?
Go to Google andf type this :
site:example.com/ "page not found"
Lets look at an example of www.ibibo.com
All the results mentioned above are returning results which is not good . So next time when you are analysing any of the website, please make sure you check this seperately.
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