tedster - 3:08 pm on Jun 8, 2010 (gmt 0)

That's interesting. I've long been an advocate of only using 301 to point to true replacement content, but it's been pretty common for SEOs to use a 301 to the home page. If Google now questions that kind of thing as a soft 404, do you think there's a chance that the link juice isn't actually flowing as intended?