Dead Link Problem

The best option would be to add 301 redirection or get the links removed from those referral sources anyhow.

I agree with Eyden... if you're using Wordpress, get the Simple 301 Redirects plugin and just redirect those URLs.

Hi, it is very urgent that you do a 301 Redirect for every page/site that has changed the old URL. Have you NOT checked your Google Search Console? They tell you such 404 pages and they tell you also that you loose your rankings if you do not fix this errors as soon as possible.So for the future I can tell you, get a tool that checks your own links, here is a page with over 50+ free SEO tools you can check this for free: Top Ten SEO SEO Tools - 100% Free SEO Tools Also I would do this in the second you change anything on your site structor or URL structure.

The sky is not falling, no matter what some loonies think.

Very few people it seems even have a remote idea as to how the internet works, let alone google.

First of all, we are not talking about the ranking of YOUR pages.

We are talking about the ranking of somebody else's page.

You are talking about referral traffic. Not ranking traffic.

Big difference.

There are looney-SEO scumbags out there who can't even come up with a definite term.

They call them dead links. Well what is that? They call them broken links. What is that?

It can't be broken and dead at the same time. Snake oil salesmen will get you every time.

You can't 301 every 404 error because that would be impossible. Yet, people will tell you to do just that! Why? Because they bought a domain in 2012, installed WP, and heard something about 301, 404,and now they is webmasters! Without actually knowing shinola about the history and reasons behind 301 and 404, and what it was designed for.

Now if you by chance are relying on those links for rankings, well, the cat's already out of the bag. Google has probably not counted them for along time, or never did. They are probably a nonissue.

Especially if it's like a handful out of 500.

If you are scared, and it's only a couple, forget the 301. Put the pages back up exactly the way they were. Like I tell people all the friggin time, stop deleting stuff that's indexed! Forget the lunacy of 301 nonsense from people who have no clue as to what a 301 was designed for.

Next, get a custom 404 error page. Make it a soft landing. The worst things you can do to people that click on a link, is to take them to a blank page with an error message, or zap them to some unwanted page. They'll surf out in a heart beat.

Give them an explanation and a direction.

Those look like very low level link pages to begin with, and who knows. Maybe the traffic is just bot traffic.

Nonissue. Start building links on good pages that go to forever pages.

Paul

you can use 301 redirection to redirect 404 error page to your website’s relevant page.