404 Page for Expired Listings

[Jeff]

This afternoon, I got a notification from Google Webmaster Tools that the number of soft 404 errors on our site (theusedcarplace.com) had suddenly increased. From the looks of it, all of the new errors are vehicles such as this (http://www.theusedcarplace.com/autos...ry-156429.html) that have expired or been removed from the site. How would I configure these to redirect to our existing 404 page so that these errors don't adversely affect Google's opinion of our site?

[Curtis]

This afternoon, I got a notification from Google Webmaster Tools that the number of soft 404 errors on our site (theusedcarplace.com) had suddenly increased. From the looks of it, all of the new errors are vehicles such as this (http://www.theusedcarplace.com/autos...ry-156429.html) that have expired or been removed from the site. How would I configure these to redirect to our existing 404 page so that these errors don't adversely affect Google's opinion of our site?

Hello Jeff,
You can make the redirect for this listing in listing_details.inc.php file if listing not exist or have inactive status.
If you'll send me your FTP login to PM, i try change it for you.
P.S. We've changed this logic in our new version of software for expired listings.