Best Way to Handle 404

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Madalen Ross: Hi there. ;
  Re 404's. ; I removed a Wordpress photo gallery plugin and images within that folder from a site. ; Now there's a lot of 404's. ; What's the best way to handle it so that I don't have to enter each one as a redirect? (I'm using a redirect manager plugin but can add it direct to htaccess. ; They're all in tt-gallery. Would you use an asterisk as a wild card for the whole folder? ; An example please? ; Thanks heaps.
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  Neeraj Pandey: Hi +Madalen Ross​, first think about why you are redirecting this page to other? Let me tell you that having 404 isn't bad and if in past you had something that you don't have now you should simply serve 404 page.
  Moreover check back link to every page and then traffic and if it is good only den redirect otherwise provide 404 and search engine will gradually execute 404 and remove them
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  Image Identity: +Neeraj Pandey Thanks for response. ;