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Do 404s Hurt SEO and Rankings?

The number 404 is the common HTTP error that happens in a website. For this, one has to, first of all, find how this 404 error occurred and try to customize this page. The second step is fixing these 404 errors properly. When you are doing this both the internal and external links should be fixed. The final step is to build broken links so as to block this 404 errors. If you are able to succeed in all these steps, you can be successful in your rankings without any influence on your ratings.

Key Takeaways:

Google is all over the web, maneuvering through numerous websites.

Getting a link that leads to a dead end can be frustrating.

Google has access to a lot of information all over.


“Google crawls the web by following links from one site to another, so if you tell Google “Hey man, check out this link!” only for it to find a dead end, I’m pretty sure whom Google’s going to be mad about.”

Read more: https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/19933/do-404-errors-affect-seo/

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