Samkt eltona el3anida
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I have 64k 404 links on my website. How do i delete them all at once from gsc?
How to delete all 404 urls
- Thread starter Samkt eltona el3anida
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- Apr 17, 2017
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Set 301 redirect to relevant pages/post but, in case there aren´t any and/or you´re just going to 301 them to the homepage set them as 410 and they will eventually go away naturally.
Also, make sure to address potential internal linking issues and remove those 404s from the site´s sitemap.
Also, make sure to address potential internal linking issues and remove those 404s from the site´s sitemap.
arcadeanslayer
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To delete all 404 URLs, you can use a website crawling tool like Screaming Frog or Google Search Console to find broken links. Once identified, remove or redirect these URLs to working pages. Use a 301 redirect for important pages to maintain SEO value.
- Aug 9, 2017
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Is your website built on an expired domain? Do any of the urls have existing backlinks pointing to them? I'd normally say to try and rebuild the pages if they do, but checking 64k urls for decent backlinks will be a nightmare, so I'd go with @Roger Marquez and get them sending 410 responses instead.
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You can’t bulk delete 404 links in GSC, but you can redirect important ones, remove them from your sitemap, use the Removals tool for patterns, and fix internal links so Google eventually drops them.
rankmasterx
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If your site is built on wordpress you can use a plugin to redirect those url to another link
Samkt eltona el3anida
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plz send the software
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To remove 404 links from Google Search Console (GSC) all at once, you can’t delete them directly in bulk. However, you can fix the issue by either redirecting the 404 URLs to relevant pages or removing them from your site entirely. After doing that, Google will eventually update the status of those URLs. You can also use the "Removals" tool in GSC to temporarily hide specific URLs from search results, but this won't delete them permanently. Regularly monitor the Crawl Errors section to ensure they're resolved.
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You can only delete them manually and not in bulk sadly.
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Listen to this.
So, primarily you have to keep three things in mind
1. GSC is just a reporting tool. It doesn't manage coverage or crawling. It takes in some data to assist in that (like your sitemap) - but that's the extent of it.
2. 404 means the page is missing. It is in fact a broken link. When external pages/other websites link to it, Google tries to visit that link and finds that the server returned a 404.
This signals gets even more stronger when your own site or your sitemap links to these pages.
3. 410 is a server response that tells any crawler that the page is completely gone. Think of it like a deleted page.
You're telling Google (and any other crawler) that the page they are trying to access is deleted and will never come back.
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Now there are two ways you can handle this.
Method # 1
Deleted any reference to that pages from your website to these pages.
Then return 410 on these pages.
Over the span of the next few month, Google will begin dropping them from their index (public and internal) and thereby from GSC as well.
Method # 2
If you have external links pointing to these pages and want to retain the link juice. You can export all 404 links and plop them into a bulk backlink analyser, keep the links with valuable inbound links and then 410 the rest.
You can 301 the links with valuable backlinks to the homepage or a pillar page.
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Sidenote -
This is a search console data viewer I built that can show your keywords and ranking pages and allows you to export more than 1000 rows
https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b378ffd1-8de6-42fa-869d-5df53110b464/page/6e4gB
Samkt eltona el3anida
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As suggested above you could try redirecting it to a relevant page or to your homepage
I'm pretty sure there are good plugins that can to do this automatically