Had Soft 404- re-indexed pages; now shows mobile issues. XML sitemap errors

[Jonathan Zvonko]

Jonathan Zvonko

April 30, 2020 at 10:22 pm

Hello,

Recently I had the issue of many plugins and Virtue theme updating a couple of days before polylang plugin updates. Resulting in my english products, contact, directions about and search pages all from my static home page had returned a 404 not found, temporarily.

Google search console then sent out an email warning of: those same 5 pages with a soft 404. I thought it was related to the temporary plugin issue, since the french pages had no errors, but it turns out that some of the errors were older. I read that soft 404 errors could be caused by caching issues and installed a recommended plugin; WP Super Cache plugin (I hope I am using it correctly).

Today after URL inspection of such pages, I requested an index of these pages and I got strange results.

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finally validates as indexed but google console says that its not mobile friendly due to; text too small to read and clickable elements are too close together.

But the french page is almost identical and validates with no issues!

Should I just ignore this as I re-verified another page URL that was giving mobile errors in the console, now shows no errors from URL inspection!

I am wondering how long does it take for the soft 404 errors to be removed from the Coverage page on google console?

Also there are some errors reported with my XML sitemap. Is there is something I need to do with my XML sitemap and if so how do I update it? I will upload those results.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jonathan Zvonko.