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Hello

Recently my forum member profile pages
/member.php?action=profile&uid=12345

are started showing as soft 404 errors in Google Webmaster Central tools. In browser the url is displaying correctly, though there is limited information in the pages (99% of the users leaves the fields blank).

Any suggestions to get rid of the problem ? because in the past I saw considerable drop in rankings when the soft 404 increasing the count. Blocking the access to the member.php in robots.txt will do any good ?

I am looking forward for your guidance

Regards

Biju
you can disallow crawling to member.php through robots.txt
if you are using Google SEO plugin then it has a better compiled robots.txt file (eg.)
Hello .m.

Thanks for your suggestion, I will update my robots.txt accordingly. But Anybody have clues about why google treating this valid member profile pages with a 200 OK header, as a soft 404 ?