Should I Create 301 Redirects For These Links

Betboss · Jan 23, 2023

Being a novice in SEO, I deleted about 200 pages from my site and never bothered to redirect them. Soon after, my ranking dropped by 50%.

It's 1 year since I did that but I noticed these links still show up on ahref and the referring domains haven't dropped the links either.

What I want to do now is redirect all these links to relevant pages. Do you think its a wise thing to do, and will it make any difference.

Please SEO gurus give me some advice. Thanks in advance.

710fla · Jan 23, 2023

If they were getting traffic then rebuild them, else yes redirect them to relevant pages or homepage

sageshark · Jan 23, 2023

Yes. You should add 301 redirect now even if it's been one year. It will not harm.

ezekiel111 · Jan 23, 2023

Save those link juice. Redirect them

HenryObi · Jan 23, 2023

Betboss said:
Being a novice in SEO, I deleted about 200 pages from my site and never bothered to redirect them. Soon after, my ranking dropped by 50%.

It's 1 year since I did that but I noticed these links still show up on ahref and the referring domains haven't dropped the links either.

What I want to do now is redirect all these links to relevant pages. Do you think its a wise thing to do, and will it make any difference.

Please SEO gurus give me some advice. Thanks in advance.

What you did is one sure way to killing a website quick. When I started much earlier I made similar mistake and it made me lose my first promising site.

Redirect the links to relevant pages or to the homepage. By The Way, you shouldn't have deleted a page that gets traffic because each redirect you do, reduces the link juice of a backlink.

Thunder Digitals · Jan 23, 2023

Redirect them to the homepage or relevant pages.

Betboss · Jan 23, 2023

Thank you guys, I'll redirect the links to relevant pages. I really appreciate the responses.

Betboss · Jan 23, 2023

710fla said:
If they were getting traffic then rebuild them, else yes redirect them to relevant pages or homepage

The pages were getting very little traffic and were what I tagged thin pages.

Nargil · Jan 23, 2023

This is an old plugin, but it still works just fine in case you can' be bothered https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-404-auto-redirect-to-similar-post/

Some of the new plugins should have this functionality though, but I am not entire sure which.

Divit0n · Jan 23, 2023

Nargil said:
This is an old plugin, but it still works just fine in case you can' be bothered https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-404-auto-redirect-to-similar-post/

Some of the new plugins should have this functionality though, but I am not entire sure which.

Nice find, thanks!

Hawkeye Digital · Jan 23, 2023

Yep redirect them mate , they still have good potential onto them .

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