Lesson 8 of 1713 minIntermediate
Rendering and indexation
Soft 404s and status code hygiene
Empty result pages returning 200 waste crawl and dilute quality signals. Return the honest status code.
Why this lesson matters
This lesson belongs to Rendering and indexation, the part of Technical SEO Excellence where the goal is: ensure the content google sees is the content you shipped.
Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankAudit. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.
Do it now
- 1Open RankAudit with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
- 2Crawl a site and triage the issue list.
- 3Compare rendered and raw HTML for one key template and note anything missing before hydration.