4/7 UPDATE: In further conversation: decided to 301 redirect these stories to the home page, to maintain the link authority passed to these pages from any external links. In general, if the page is not found, would be good to serve 404, but since these are a legacy page type, will 301 redirect them instead.
Google doesn't like this, and it's a bad user experience. Those two links are included right now in the Google search result for "caliparks", under the link to the home page.
Can we change the status code to these page not founds to 404?
4/7 UPDATE: In further conversation: decided to 301 redirect these stories to the home page, to maintain the link authority passed to these pages from any external links. In general, if the page is not found, would be good to serve 404, but since these are a legacy page type, will 301 redirect them instead.
It looks like we are serving 200 status codes for some pages not found. e.g. http://www.caliparks.org/parks/story/camp-in-the-woods and http://www.caliparks.org/parks/story/jeff-sullivan-picks
Google doesn't like this, and it's a bad user experience. Those two links are included right now in the Google search result for "caliparks", under the link to the home page.
Can we change the status code to these page not founds to 404?