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(Entry was posted by Heena Shah on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/28/2014).

Google webmaster shows 404 error for certain links which are no more existing in my new website

Not sure if its SEO question but still quite comfortable with answers in this community :)

Google webmaster shows 404 error for certain links which are no more existing in my new website. Even when clicked rectified  and later when google crawls website again it shows those error for same links again. How should i rectify this.
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  • Heena Shah: Not sure if its SEO question but still quite comfortable with answers in this community :)

    Google webmaster shows 404 error for certain links which are no more existing in my new website. Even when clicked rectified  ;and later when google crawls website again it shows those error for same links again. How should i rectify this.
  • happysus sait: Redirect 301 in cpanel.
  • Dave Elliott: if there is an equivalent/releavnt page on the new site than 301 redirect from the old to the new. if not make the page return a ;410 code if you can really be bothered(its a stronger signal to search engines than a 404) and if not in this instance a 404 code is what you'd expect and want to be returned so don't worry.

    That being said you may want to consider what content was on the old site and if it was a valuable resource and rewrite it for the new site if there isn''t already an equivalent page and then 301 redirect to it.
  • Heena Shah: Old website is no more hosted.. can still i redirect?
  • Dave Elliott: as long as you still own the old url and point it to the new website then yes.
  • Ashish Dhanoliya: +Dave Elliott ; is right ;

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