The number of soft 404 errors is increasing because of redirects to the home page

Posted by Stevie G on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Stevie G
Published on 2013-10-31T12:09:08Z Indexed on 2013/10/31 16:17 UTC
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I have an increase in soft 404 errors.

Using Apache in my .htaccess file I have:

Redirect 301 /test.html? /page/pop/test
Redirect 301 /about.html? /about 

I have also tried:

Redirect 301 http://www.example.co.za/test.html? http://www.example.co.za/services/test 

however whenever I go to:

http://www.example.co.za/test.html
http://www.example.co.za/about.html

it just redirects to the home page

I also have: RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L] in .htaccess

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