5 hours ago
Soft 404 errors are a real headache because search engines often mistake empty pages for normal ones, resulting in a waste of the crawl budget. For this kind of diagnosis, it’s best to use a specialized tool—for example, I can recommend SpeedyIndex’s Google page index checker, where you can either paste 20 links directly into the web version for a quick test or upload a full file containing thousands of URLs. The tool provides accurate “Indexed”/“Not Indexed” data without caching and generates a convenient report for webmasters, which saves a significant amount of time. Have you already checked whether those problematic pages are returning an incorrect 200 OK server response code instead of a proper 404? And how many URLs in total were affected by this faulty update?