Why when using your custom 404 plug-in are the headers returning 301 and not 404? The correct status for a error page is 404 so it is not indexed. That’s quite important because a correct code 404 delivered tells search engines that the page does not exist and has to be removed from the index. A redirect in a HTTP code 301 or 302 and the URL would remain in the search index.
Hello there,
Thank you for writing in!
To investigate it better, if you could post some logins details in a secure note and we`d be happy to take a look.
P.S: You can search by “secure note” on this article if you don`t know about this: https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/themeco-support-overview/288
Hi there,
May I know where you get the 301 status? I checked and the status is 404 for 404 pages.
Thanks!
I do apologize, it appears that it is correctly displaying the correct status. It was a 3rd party monitoring system that was giving me a false reading.
No problem. Glad you have figured this out.
Cheers!