Quest about 404 Errors
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About two months ago, we deleted some unnecessary pages on our website that were no longer relevant. However, MOZ is still saying that these deleted pages are returning 404 errors when a crawl test is done. The page is no longer there, at least that I can see. What is the best solution for this? I have a page that similar to the older page, so is it a good choice to just redirect the bad page to my good page? If so, what's the best way to do this.
I found some useful information searching but none of it truly pertained to me. I went around my site to make sure there were no old links that directed traffic to the non existent page, and there are none.
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Hey Meier,
I'm glad that was helpful!
With Wordpress I use Simple 301 Redirects by Scott Nelle. It's very simple plugin to understand and use. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Be well,
Alex Brown
Del Mar Fans & Lighting -
thank you very much! what is the easiest way to do redirects?
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Hi Meier,
I've been able to find a few external back links going to pages that no longer exist on your website. I would recommend redirecting the old pages to the closest existing pages to recover that "link juice". If you had any internal links going to the old page, change that link to the new page that it will be redirected to.
When the links being followed begin to land people on the new pages the 404 errors will no longer be seen.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you need any more detailed information.
Be well,
Alex Brown
Del Mar Fans & Lighting
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