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Will I be penalized?

by Flasportsfan88
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I had just a splash page for my business a couples months ago. On my ecommerce store for my clients I had links linking out to FAQ page.

I've redone the site and don't have an FAQ page accessible from the website anymore, but site explorers are showing its still an inbound link to the domain, and the most important links.

Do search engines find this sketchy? Should I made a new FAQ page and change the url link on the ecommerce links?

Thanks!
#penalized
  • Profile picture of the author irawr
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    Originally Posted by Flasportsfan88 View Post

    I had just a splash page for my business a couples months ago. On my ecommerce store for my clients I had links linking out to FAQ page.

    I've redone the site and don't have an FAQ page accessible from the website anymore, but site explorers are showing its still an inbound link to the domain, and the most important links.

    Do search engines find this sketchy? Should I made a new FAQ page and change the url link on the ecommerce links?

    Thanks!
    You won't be penalized but you are losing out on that authority that was flowing to the page that is no longer there.

    I would try to put the FAQ page back at exactly the same URL and make sure that page is linking to the main index page or root domain of your site.

    If for some reason you can not put the FAQ back up at the exact same address, put it up on a new address, on the same domain, then configure a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one in cpanel.
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    • Profile picture of the author Flasportsfan88
      Originally Posted by irawr View Post

      You won't be penalized but you are losing out on that authority that was flowing to the page that is no longer there.

      I would try to put the FAQ page back at exactly the same URL and make sure that page is linking to the main index page or root domain of your site.

      If for some reason you can not put the FAQ back up at the exact same address, put it up on a new address, on the same domain, then configure a 301 redirect from the old address to the new one in cpanel.
      Thanks for the help!

      This page is actually still active but can't be accessed from anywhere on the new site and its still showing active backlinks for it. Would it be better to create a new Faq page and link the links from the ecommerce sites with a new URL, or just leaving it be?
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      • Profile picture of the author irawr
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        Originally Posted by Flasportsfan88 View Post

        Thanks for the help!

        This page is actually still active but can't be accessed from anywhere on the new site and its still showing active backlinks for it. Would it be better to create a new Faq page and link the links from the ecommerce sites with a new URL, or just leaving it be?
        You asked the same question twice. Are the links from other websites now linking to a 404 page?

        You want the external links that were linking to the faq page, to be linking to a faq page...

        You're saying it can't be accessed... BS, the server will respond to any address I type in, what is the server responding with on the addresses that have links? Those addresses matter for SEO.

        The flow across an external link, to your website, from the perspective of a user, should be similar.

        So if, I'm a visitor on externalwebsite/piece-of-content/link-to-your-faq-page.html and I click a link to yourwebsite/faq-page.html I better get a faqpage and not a 404 page.
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