How to remove the 404 crawled pages on Google search console?

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Hello Everyone,

Can someone let me know, how to remove the 404 crawled page on Google search console?

My website have removed some folders including crawled pages.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by METKRAFT View Post

    Hello Everyone,

    Can someone let me know, how to remove the 404 crawled page on Google search console?

    My website have removed some folders including crawled pages.

    Thanks
    Industrial Knives

    if you changed the structure of your site you should really check if you have incoming links to those pages and do redirects. Also if you have broken links within your site they should be fixed or they will hurt your sites traffic (if you deleted pages that were getting traffic thats bad as well)

    crawled pages in regard to what google crawled and in the index will eventually correct themselves if there are not too many. Hard to give you specific with the information provided
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  • Profile picture of the author DigiEdge
    You can put request to remove unwanted pages from SERP through Google Search Console via remove Url's option
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    The best practice is to re-direct them to the new URL using a 301 re-direct. If there is absolutely nothing you can re-direct it to (it is a product that no longer exists and there are no substitutes, for instance), you might want to tell Google to permanently delete it from their index by navigating to Google Index > Remove URLs. Then submit the URL you want to remove from their index. Usually, though, even if the product no longer exists, I use a 301 re-direct to the category it was in or worst case, the Home page.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Well, if a page is actually 404, it isn't being crawled. There's nothing to crawl. (see below for other scenario)

    You cannot ever get rid of 404 errors. The internet is what it is, and people are people.

    404 errors are meaningless, unless they are your money pages that you THOUGHT should be there and they aint.

    Now some pages are created on the fly for some visitors at that point in time. If google is crawling that at that exact moment, it could be indexed. Google could come back later, thinking it's going to crawl it, and does not find it. You get that error from google.

    But again, they are meaningless errors UNLESS (see above)

    Some pages that are created on the fly are search pages. You can alter your robots.txt to keep this from happening. There are other scenarios.

    I can only assume you use WP or some other lame-o CMS. They do a ton of bad things, and could generate hundreds (if not thousands) of pages that are not kept.

    301 makes no sense. You could be playing whack-a-mole.

    Ignore them or fix it. If you can't fix it, you may find someone who can.

    But google aside, you cannot never prevent 404 errors. Simple typos cause 404 errors. You can't keep people from making typos.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    How to remove the 404 crawled pages on Google search console?

    Uh... remove the possibility of a 404 from your host (correct URL or 301 redirect) and Fetch the URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author bpoowaah
    For 404 errors, I use a plugin on WordPress that redirects to other blog post. Then I don't lose the visitor.

    You can do that if it's a wordprss.
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  • Profile picture of the author abhishek786
    You can simply go to webmasters go on crawl errors and mark them resolved. Simple Isnt it?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by abhishek786 View Post

      You can simply go to webmasters go on crawl errors and mark them resolved. Simple Isnt it?

      Lol, sure, but odds are the message will return each time Google finds the 404s.
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    If nothing else, create a custom 404 page so that you can help people navigate to what they were really looking for. https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/93641?hl=en
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  • Profile picture of the author Corey Taylor
    301 redirect the broken pages to your homepage or somewhere else.
    Just make sure there aren't broken pages.
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