How to Fix Google Webmasters Soft 404 Errors for Wordpress Site?
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I am getting Soft 404 errors in my Google Webmasters Tools don't know how to fix it the site in on WordPress CMS the site is "http://appdictions.com/" i am getting errors in the http://appdictions.com/members section...suggestion to fix the issue will be appreciated..
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http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/06/crawl-errors-now-reports-soft-404s.html
above is some of the ways to fix soft 404s. But the easiest might be to deindex and not have Google Webmasters crawl the members area. Unless its important for you
Hope this helps
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