Title: Soft 404 Errors & Google Plus
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Soft 404 Errors & Google Plus

 *  [Trinityed78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinityed78/)
 * (@trinityed78)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/)
 * I’ve had a number of soft 404 errors on what appear to be due to crawling links
   from Google+.
 * For example, here’s the link which is throwing up an error:
 * [http://www.tomorrows-news.com/tag/zombies/google.com/+TomorrowsNews-EntertainmentNews](http://www.tomorrows-news.com/tag/zombies/google.com/+TomorrowsNews-EntertainmentNews)
 * …and quite rightly so, because the true working URL is actually this:
 * [http://www.tomorrows-news.com/tag/zombies/](http://www.tomorrows-news.com/tag/zombies/)
 * Would someone please be able to offer some advice on either how to enforce a 
   URL redirect to the appropriate page (whether it’s via the htaccess file etc),
   or a single redirect query that I can add to my redirect plugin? Or even better,
   help me to find out why this could be happening?
 * I hope someone can help.
 * Ed.

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 *  [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/)
 * (@graphical_force)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4653875)
 * The first link is not a well formed url so I could see why that may be a problem.
   Have you looked/asked in Google+ forums?
 *  Thread Starter [Trinityed78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinityed78/)
 * (@trinityed78)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4654029)
 * Hello.
 * Thanks for your response.
 * I haven’t posted on Google’s forums yet, but I’ve searched and found anything
   in relation to my url issue.
 * Is there an easy way of placing a redirect, rather than having to do it for each
   tag url, which there are tons of? It’s just until I can find the root cause.
 *  [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/)
 * (@graphical_force)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4654032)
 * This may help you: [https://managewp.com/the-best-way-to-set-up-redirects-in-your-wordpress-blog](https://managewp.com/the-best-way-to-set-up-redirects-in-your-wordpress-blog)
 *  Thread Starter [Trinityed78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinityed78/)
 * (@trinityed78)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4654046)
 * Thanks for the link. I already use the Redirection plugin, and it’s a great tool.
 * However as per my last post, I was wondering if there is a way of capturing all
   these types of erroneous urls in one redirect? Could Regex query be used? If 
   so, what does/could the the query look like?
 * I would like to avoid having to enter them all in manually.
 *  [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/)
 * (@graphical_force)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4654058)
 * I’m not sure but maybe others can answer.

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 * [errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/errors/)
 * [soft 404](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/soft-404/)

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 * 5 replies
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soft-404-errors-google-plus/#post-4654058)
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