What is mean by soft 404 errors? how it will come? And what to do for that?

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what is mean by soft 404 errors? how it will come? And what to do for that?

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The page can’t load because the server it is on is currently down. Once the server comes back up the page will be accessible again.

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But in my WMT its showing soft 404 errors. Its affect my site ranking? How can I remove this?

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I have 113 soft errors on one of my sites mainly because I have removed the page ,php and .html extensions) which are still shown for many searches.

Any page which is not found returns a HTTP Request 200 and the following meta data:

<meta content="noindex,nofollow" name="slurp" />
<meta content="noindex,nofollow" name="robots" />
<meta content="noindex,nofollow" name="msnbot" />
<meta content="noindex,nofollow" name="googlebot" />

To remove the soft errors use GWT, click on the link, click “Linked from” for the source and click “Marked as fixed”.

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