Dose 404 errors hurt my site rankings ?

RonyJoe

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Mar 11, 2016

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• Oct 3, 2016

• #1

Hello, I wired thing happened. yesterday i found out using webmasters tools that my site have "1426" 404 pages ! all of my site is actually 50 pages. i checked the 404 pages all like this "babiesrus.php?q=bakery-shop-front" dose this hurt my rankings in google ?

 

bossofthebosses

Elite Member

Feb 7, 2015

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• Oct 3, 2016

• #2

Usually 404 pages do not hurt. But as there are a lot, u should try to find out from where Google found those pages. Maybe somewhere on your site, there are links to those pages.

 

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SeanVX

Junior Member

Jun 24, 2016

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• Oct 4, 2016

• #3

It's usually best to redirect them for multiple reasons though. Try to keep up with it as you change urls and make sure to 301 redirect!

 

Scross

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Jan 15, 2014

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• Oct 4, 2016

• #4

404 error affects on User Experience so the best way is to redirect 404 to similar content/page/post. Multi 301 is not a solution.