404 pages affect Google rankings?

[Nexevo Technologi]

404 pages affect Google rankings?

[brknny]

404 affects google rankings.If search engines find 404 while crawling they won't index the thepages.You need to fix these errors by permanently redirecting to the new page.

[davidwarner033]

404 Page is very important to SEO, it affects the Google ranking. If a webpage is deleted from website, You must redirect to other web page by using a 301 redirect. If a page is super-authoritative, though, consider keeping that URL no matter how difficult.