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Page Not Found is bad for SEO.?

by deepakphalswal
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Hello Guys
in my websites there are many of page which are not available right now is it bad for seo..?
#bad #found #page #seo
  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    Yes it is bad for SEO, 301 redirect those pages. You are wasting your precious visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hudson White
    Originally Posted by deepakphalswal View Post

    Hello Guys
    in my websites there are many of page which are not available right now is it bad for seo..?
    I agreed. You should implement 301-redirect on those pages. But make sure to redirect them on their related pages only.
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  • Profile picture of the author smallseotoolz
    yeah, it's really bad for SEO. You need to optimize those pages or redirect them on the similar resources or the home. it is the necessary part of SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by deepakphalswal View Post

    Hello Guys
    in my websites there are many of page which are not available right now is it bad for seo..?
    You tell us, If you can't find your own page does it sound like a good thing?
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnnyFanta
    Create a custom 404 error page that way it won't be seen as a broken link which is worse.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    No, it is awesome. Everybody loves when there are a bunch of pages on a site they cannot find. What an asinine question.
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    • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      You tell us, If you can't find your own page does it sound like a good thing?
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      No, it is awesome. Everybody loves when there are a bunch of pages on a site they cannot find. What an asinine question.
      Where is paulgl when need him?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

        Where is paulgl when need it?
        Well, all kidding aside, if you have a site like WP, blogspot, or other CMS,
        that has things like search....it is possible for google to crawl those
        one off generated pages. robots.txt fixes this.

        It's not bad for seo, really, in that respect, because nobody in their right mind
        is going to search for anything that one of those pages will pop up on the first
        page.

        That's the key. Nonsense pages giving 404 errors are moot.

        Now if your money pages give a 404 error, well, you are an idiot.
        Either that or your site blew up, you forgot to do all pages if changing
        servers, etc.

        You can't prevent 404 errors, but you can prevent them on the pages
        that you care about.

        Of course, some of you could care less...so we get threads like this.

        If your site is generating tons of one off pages...and keeping them....
        hire someone to fix that. It's not good in the long run to waste
        resources.

        Paul
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        • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
          Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

          Well, all kidding aside, if you have a site like WP, blogspot, or other CMS,
          that has things like search....it is possible for google to crawl those
          one off generated pages. robots.txt fixes this.

          It's not bad for seo, really, in that respect, because nobody in their right mind
          is going to search for anything that one of those pages will pop up on the first
          page.

          That's the key. Nonsense pages giving 404 errors are moot.

          Now if your money pages give a 404 error, well, you are an idiot.
          Either that or your site blew up, you forgot to do all pages if changing
          servers, etc.

          You can't prevent 404 errors, but you can prevent them on the pages
          that you care about.

          Of course, some of you could care less...so we get threads like this.

          If your site is generating tons of one off pages...and keeping them....
          hire someone to fix that. It's not good in the long run to waste
          resources.

          Paul
          Paul when we need you to appear to make one of your rants to destroy everything that is in your way, you come and give real advice, you are not a reliable party pooper
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            Okay, here goes.

            The majority of the repliers in this thread are morons.

            How can 404 errors affect SEO? Non existent crapola....
            affects search results? Oh for those imaginary search results?

            If you have 404 errors ON PAGES THAT SHOULD BE THERE,
            then you are an idiot with a capital I. Has nothing to do
            with SEO, but with how brain dead a webmaster is.

            Newsflash: 302, 301, whatever the number of the day because you
            heard someone last week, CANNOT prevent 404 errors.

            Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author KylieSweet
    Originally Posted by deepakphalswal View Post

    there are many of page which are not available right now is it bad for seo?
    As stated from one of the trusted members in this forum site and I would like to add that site page/s that provide 404 error message will affect user experience within a site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mehwish84
    It bad experience for user and bad for SEO so redirect your URLs to 301.
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    • Profile picture of the author AadhyaMehra
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      Originally Posted by Mehwish84 View Post

      It bad experience for user and bad for SEO so redirect your URLs to 301.
      Yeah, I too agree with you that page not found the bad error for SEO. 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes away the 90 to 99% link juice.
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  • Profile picture of the author gsminds
    Just do a permanent redirect to your homepage or any page you want to avoid lose of visitors and bad impression.
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  • Profile picture of the author Batalov
    https://support.google.com/webmaster...08791734570887
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  • Profile picture of the author brisbaneseo
    Page not found is very bad for the SEO Aspects. One must redirect the page to visible link otherwise it can hurt the ranking or it can be the barrier for ranking downing signal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Am33n
    404s errors can lead to so many different things...

    1. You are not utilizing the power of link juice..
    2. You are wasting Google's crawl budget by showing too many 404 pages.
    3. 404s may lead to pogo sticking that may give Search Engines hint that your site is not user-friendly..

    So redirect your 404s to genuine pages with pages that has similar content to 404s...

    You can also create a custom 404s that could create a funny gesture to the users.. And add internal links to it.. so the internal links get index quickly...
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  • Profile picture of the author AmandaThomas
    404 pages are bad in the sense that these pages decrease your customer retention rate....that is why Google recommends having a "custom" 404 page so that the lost user will be guided accordingly and is retained...
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