Google Search Console: What should I do with old 404 errors?



In this episode of SEO Snippets, John Mueller gives you the best way to deal with those 404 errors.

Google Search Console → https://www.google.com/webmaster/tools
Webmaster Help Forum → https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters

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29 thoughts on “Google Search Console: What should I do with old 404 errors?”

  1. Is it a good idea to go through at 301 or 410 these pages- so I can "clear out" my errors in GSC? Even if Google isn't penalizing me right now- I feel there's some value knowing my site is cleaned up, and as efficient as possible? Or am I overthinking this?

  2. Hey Sir, I found a broken link on a different website with 404 error then i apprached to the website owner that place my url rather than old url and he did it, so will google index or not because its not the relevent url which placed on a text. will it be helpful?

  3. I have a lot of very old URLs in Google Index which are both 404 or redirected. As i understand they still appear, because someone still links to them on external websites, right? What is an approach for those? May be i should just delete from index through console?

  4. There are many different types of 404. Internal links that generate a 404, external links that generate a 404, Image URL that generate a 404. Are they all treated the same by Google?

  5. This was good because it's coming from Google and not just myself. It's nice having videos to quickly reference to send to clients for quick reference. In the clients case they had many 404s from an old site architecture and were missing out on old benefits from prior links to them.

  6. Good evening or good morning any time you see the message.

    I want to solve the problem of not sending the site in the Google site and stopping the sudden download of any topic in the Google search engine .

  7. Yes, I found that useful and please make as much of them as you can. I never missed a video by Matt Cutts over the years and it paid many many times. I'm sure that John's videos will prove as valuable.

  8. I am not able to index my new blog posts in google. I tried google search console's fetch render option also I tried to directly submit the url but it still not indexed and it is two weeks when I posted the article. Please help me how I figured it out.

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