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---- Purposely returning 200 for Page Not Found instead of 404


tedster - 7:34 pm on Mar 17, 2009 (gmt 0)


This practice, over time, can destroy your site's rankings. You are essentially telling Google to index the same content for an infinite number of URLs.

You can return a custom error page that is friendly to your visitors and still send a 404 in the server's http header.


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