Google clarifies that soft 404 pages consume crawl budget, even when they return a 200 OK status. Here’s how this affects your site.
- Soft 404s consume crawl budget and won’t be indexed.
- Google Search Console can help you identify soft 404s.
- Fixing soft 404s can improve crawl efficiency.

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