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SEO - Does Redirecting Links That Lead To 404 Pages Gain Google SEO Value?

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Post by bill » March 26th, 2022, 4:04 pm

https://www.seroundtable.com/redirect-4 ... 33126.html


John Mueller of Google spoke about how sometimes you can redirect old 404 pages and that link may pass to the new page, even if that link is 404ed for years
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Post by BrasSmonkey » March 26th, 2022, 4:06 pm

i redirect 404 to home atm
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Post by TheButcher » March 26th, 2022, 4:46 pm

BrasSmonkey wrote: ↑
March 26th, 2022, 4:06 pm
i redirect 404 to home atm
Same here

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Post by Toons-man » March 27th, 2022, 11:55 am

I never thought about checking my logs to see if Google is trying to access 404 pages......




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Post by Austin » March 28th, 2022, 11:32 am

I have this WP Plugin for 404 and it's good

All 404 Redirect to Homepage & Broken images Redirection




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Post by jag » March 29th, 2022, 8:25 am

BrasSmonkey wrote: ↑
March 26th, 2022, 4:06 pm
i redirect 404 to home atm
I have always thought that was the best way
From Malta with love and sunshine

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