How to fix soft 404 errors?

[nihitthakkar]

To get rid of soft 404 errors, you can use one of the five solutions below:
1. Check that the page is indeed a soft 404 or a false alarm
2. Configure your server to return the proper not found error code (404/410)
3. Improve the page and request indexing
4. Redirect the page using a 301 redirection
5. Keep the page on your site but de-index it from search engines